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Mucilago crustacea var. crustacea
Dog Sick Fungus
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 1118 0908 (2018-11-22)Copyright © 2018 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Nov 16, 2018
latitude 46.36043 longitude 13.70289
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Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soča and Trenta, Na melu place, near Trenta 2b cottage; East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)notes Slo.: oskorjena smrkljevka - syn.: Mucilago spongiosa (Leyss.) Morgan, Spumaria alba (Bull.) Dc. - Habitat: Former pasture; under Tilia platyphyllos canopy; slightly inclined mountain slope, southeast aspect; shallow soil layer, calcareous, colluvial, skeletal ground; partly protected from direct rain by tree canopy; average precipitation ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 600 m (2.000 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: fallen off leaves and small dead branches of Tilia platyphyllos. - Comment: Mucilago crustacea is a cosmopolitan species (north hemisphere only) not rare in calcareous regions (Ref.: 4). It is easy to be recognize by its characteristic habitus. Aethalia are composed of clumps or networks of very irregular tubes. As a whole they look whitish. The species can be eventually confused by some unusually looking species from genus Fuligo. But under the microscope they can be unmistakably separated. The cortex of Fuligo species is composed of +/- rounded calcareous grains, while the cortex of Mucilago crustacea is composed of calcareous (lime) crystals, which are easy to be seen under the microscope. The find was solitary. - Three varieties of this species have been described in literature (Ref.: 1) - Mucilago crustacea var. crustacea, Mucilago crustacea var. solida and Mucilago crustacea var. dictyospora. The last one has reticulated not warty/spiny spores and Mucilago solida has significantly smaller spores than this observation and partly much broader capillitium threads (Ref.: 1). This pictures therefore show var. crustacea. - Spores densely warty, globose to sub-globose. Dimensions (without warts/spines): (13,9) 14 - 15,8 (15,9) × (12,4) 12,8 - 14,2 (14,3) µm; Q = 1 - 1,1 (1,2); N = 12; Me = 14,8 × 13,6 µm; Qe = 1,1. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil (spores, capillitium, Ca crystals, cortex), NEA 40x/0.65, magnification 400x (peridium, capillitium), NEA 10x/0.25, magnification 100x (capillitium); in water; fresh material. AmScope MA500 digital camera. - Ref.: (1) H. Neubert, W. Nowotny, K. Baumann - H. Marx, Die Myxomyceten Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Alpenraumes unter besonderen Berücksichtigung Österreichs, Vol. 2., Karlheinz Baumann Verlag, (1995), p 154. (2) M. Poulain, M. Meyer, J. Borronet, Les Myxomycetes, FMBDS (2011), Vol.1., p 454; Vol.2. p 349. (3) S.L. Stephenson and H. Stempen, Myxomycetes, Timber Press Inc.(2000), p 138. (4) B. Ing, The Myxomycetes of Britain and Ireland, The Richmond Publ. Co. Ltd, (1999), p 348.camera AmScope AM500
contributor's ID # Bot_1161/2018_DSC3739 photo category: Fungi - mold
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS FUNGUS
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Dog Sick Fungus, Dog Sick Slime Mould (photographer)
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