- 1898. Physarum murinum var. aeneum Lister, Jour. Bot., XXXVI., p. 117.
- 1903. Physarum aeneum Lister, R. E. Fries, Arkiv. Bot., I., p. 62.
Sporangia sessile, sub-globose or plasmodiocarpous, pinkish-brown or bronze, glossy; peridium double, the outer somewhat cartilaginous, brittle, falling back from the shining, membranous inner wall; capillitium dense, the nodules not large, brown, sometimes aggregated to form a pseudo-columella; spores pale brownish-violet, nearly smooth, 6–8 µ.
Reported from West Indies, Bolivia.
Related Genus
Trichamphora Junghuhn, p. 12.
- 1838. Trichamphora, Junghuhn, Fl. Crypt. Javanica.
Sporangia discoidal, above concave, saucer-shaped, stipitate; the capillitium variable, anon physaroid, badhamioid, or even as in Didymium.
This genus is set up for the accommodation thus far of the single species following. It differs from Physarella in the apparently constant discoidal shape, absence of trabecules, etc.
Trichamphora pezizoidea Jungh., op. cit.
- 1838. Trichamphora pezizoidea Jungh., op. cit.
- 1854. Didymium zeylanicum Berk. & Br., Hook. Jour. Bot., VI., p. 230.
- 1869. Physarum macrocarpum Fuckel, Symb. Myc., p. 343.
- 1875. Chondrioderma pezizoidea Rost., Mon., p. 424, tab. VIII., Fig. 122.
- 1876. Badhamia fuckeliana Rost., Mon., App., p. 2.
- 1894. Trichamphora pezizoidea Jungh., List., Mycetozoa, p. 89.
- 1911. Trichamphora pezizoidea Jungh., List., Mycetozoa, 2nd ed., p. 90.