Phylum:Myxomycota >> Class: Protosteliomycetes >>  Order: Protosteliales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. porioides
 
   
   
 Author:

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. porioides (Alb. & Schw.) A. Lister, A Monograph of the Mycet. ed. 2. 26. 1911.

Ceratium porioides Alb. & Schw., Consp. Fung., 359. 1805.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Fructifications sessile, honeycomb like, white. Spores borne individually on slender stipes, colorless by transmitted light, ovoid to eliptical, 5-7 × 9-10 μm in diameter, varying in few to subglobose or globose, then 6-7 μm in diameter.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taipei County: Shihding, Wenshan Botanical Garden of National Taiwan Univ., 7 June 1999, Yang A6-29.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Dead wood, bark of living trees.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

North America, Europe, South Africa, Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan).

 
 
 
 References:

Lister, G.. 1925; Tsai, YY and Liu, CH. 1997.

   
   
   
 Provided:

C. H. Liu

 
 
 Note: The honeycomb-like fruiting bodies that superficially resembles a minute polypore is distinct separating this taxon from the other varieties of Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa.