Metatrichia

Metatrichia
	Metatrichia floriformis
Systematics
without rank:	Amorphea
without rank:	Amoebozoa
without rank:	Myxogastria
Order :	Trichiida
Family :	Trichiidae
Genre :	Metatrichia
Scientific name
	Metatrichia
	Ing

Metatrichia is a genus of slime molds from the order of the Trichiida . It includes seven types.

features

The fruiting bodies are stalked or sessile sporocarps , which often form pseudo-ethers . The thick-walled, brittle-fragile peridium has one, two or three layers. The outer layer is sculpted smooth or warty. The capillitium consists of simple, branched or reticulated, hollow threads that are dark red to red-brown, they do not glow in polarized light, unlike the reddish to brown spores .

distribution

The genus is distributed worldwide with two of its species (including Metatrichia vesparium , one of the most common slime mold species worldwide). Three other species are known from Africa, one from Jamaica and the Dominican Republic and one from the Kassel area .

Systematics and research history

The genus was first described by Bruce Ing in 1964 , the type species is Metatrichia horrida from Africa. The genus includes seven species:

proof

Footnotes directly behind a statement cover the individual statement, footnotes directly behind a punctuation mark the entire preceding sentence. Footnotes after a space refer to the entire preceding paragraph.

^ Marie L. Farr: Myxomycetes . In: Flora Neotropica . tape 16 . The New York Botanical Garden, New York 1976, ISBN 0-89327-009-1 , pp. 60 .
^ ^A ^b ^c Hermann Neubert , Wolfgang Nowotny , Karlheinz Baumann : The Myxomycetes of Germany and the neighboring Alpine region with special consideration of Austria . tape 1 . Karlheinz Baumann Verlag, Gomaringen 1993, ISBN 3-929822-00-8 , p. 225-226 .
↑ 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. 969 .

[farr-1] Marie L. Farr: Myxomycetes . In: Flora Neotropica . tape 16 . The New York Botanical Garden, New York 1976, ISBN 0-89327-009-1 , pp. 60 .

[baum-2] A ^b ^c Hermann Neubert , Wolfgang Nowotny , Karlheinz Baumann : The Myxomycetes of Germany and the neighboring Alpine region with special consideration of Austria . tape 1 . Karlheinz Baumann Verlag, Gomaringen 1993, ISBN 3-929822-00-8 , p. 225-226 .

[myc-3] 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. 969 .