Badhamia utricularis

Appearance

SPORANGIA: subglobose or obovoid, 0.5 to 1 mm. diam., free, confluent and lobed, or clustered, sometimes sessile, usually on clustered, often long, branching, straw-colored, membranous stalks, cinereous or iridescent violet and veined with white.

HYPOTHALLUS: dull red, inconspicuous.

STALK: pallid, yellowish or tawny, weak, branched, often prostrate


PERIDIUM: iridescent, hyaline, with sparsely distributed minute granules of lime.

CAPILLITIUM: a network of fiat bands with broad, thin expansions at the angles, evenly and sparsely charged with white lime-granules. Spore-mass dull blackish brown.


SPORES: Bright brown or violet-brown, adhering in loose clusters of 7 to 10, spinulose, 9-12 µm in diameter.

PLASMODIUM: Chrome-yellow.

Habitat

On dead wood and bark