Craterium minutum

Craterium minutum

Craterium minutum is a species of fungus in the Physaraceae family.
SPORANGIA: total height 0.7 to 1.5 mm., goblet-shaped, funnel-shaped, or long-cylindrical, stalked, erect, gregarious, 0.4 to 1.2 mm. high, smooth, yellow, pale brown, or brown; lid convex and above the rim of the sporangium, or flat and below it, white or concolorous; sporangial wall of two layers, the outer cartilaginous, thickened at the rim below the lid, translucent below and continued into the translucent stalk, the inner layer more or less charged with lime-granules.
Craterium minutum true size is about 1,5 mm.
found these on beech-leave in my hometown Wijk bij Duurstede the Netherlands Craterium minutum,Geotagged,Netherlands

Appearance

STALK: cylindrical, plicate, 0.3 to 0.5 mm. long, yellowish, pale brown, or dark brown, rising from a circular hypothallus.

CAPILLITIUM: of slender, colorless threads, connecting numerous, large, white lime nodes, often combined in the center to form a pseudocolumella.

SPORES: Violet-brown, minutely warted, 8-9 µm in diameter.

PLASMODIUM: Yellow. ECOLOGY: On dead leaves.

References:

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http://www.hiddenforest.co.nz/slime/family/physaraceae/physa03.htm
Taxonomy
KingdomProtozoa
DivisionMycetozoa
ClassMyxomycetes
OrderPhysarales
FamilyPhysaraceae
GenusCraterium
SpeciesCraterium minutum
Photographed in
Netherlands