Echinostelium

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Echinostelium
Systematics
without rank: Amorphea
without rank: Amoebozoa
without rank: Myxogastria
Order : Echinosteliida
Family : Echinosteliedae
Genre : Echinostelium
Scientific name of the  family
Echinosteliedae
Rostafinski , 1873
Scientific name of the  genus
Echinostelium
de Bary , 1873

Echinostelium is the only genus inthe Echinosteliedae family . It includes at least 12 species that are considered to be the smallest slime molds .

features

With the exception of Echitostelium cribrarioides , the stalked sporangia are no larger than 50 micrometers , white, yellow, pink or light brown with a pale colorless stem. A columella is usually present, but then very briefly.

The peridium gradually dissolves, but regularly a more or less clearly pronounced collar remains around the stem. A scalp may be missing, if present, it arises from the tip of the columella and can be a single, only weakly branched thread up to a network.

distribution

The species of the genus mostly colonize the bark of living trees.

Systematics and research history

The family was first described in 1873 by Józef Thomasz Rostafińsky , the genus was also first described by Heinrich Anton de Bary , the type species is Echinostelium minutum .

The genus includes at least 12 species, including:

proof

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  1. ^ A b Marie L. Farr: Myxomycetes . In: Flora Neotropica . tape 16 . The New York Botanical Garden, New York 1976, ISBN 0-89327-009-1 , pp. 101 .
  2. ↑ a b c Michael J. Dykstra, Harold W. Keller: Mycetozoa In: John J. Lee, GF Leedale, P. Bradbury (Eds.): An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa . tape 2 . Allen, Lawrence 2000, ISBN 1-891276-23-9 , pp. 977 .