Plasmodiocarp

A plasmodiocarp is a special form of the fruiting bodies of slime molds . It forms when the plasmodium concentrates during fructification and retreats into the nerve of the plasmodium, from which the fruiting body is then formed. In this way, the fruiting body traces the course of the nerve, which results in its simple, strand-like, branched, reticulated or ring-like structure resting on the ground. The formation of plasmodiocarps can be typical of the species, but it can also be caused by the disturbed formation of sporocarps or ethers .

Slime molds with plasmodiocarps include Physarum aeneum , Physarum bivalve , Physarum lateritium , Diderma effusum , Physarella oblonga , Willkommlangea reticulata or Hemitrichia serpula .

Individual evidence

↑ Heinrich Dörfelt , Gottfried Jetschke (Ed.): Dictionary of Mycology. 2nd Edition. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8274-0920-9 , p. 246.
^ Henry Stempen, Steven L. Stevenson: Myxomycetes. A Handbook of Slime Molds . Timber Press, 1994, ISBN 0-88192-439-3 , pp. 165 .
^ Henry Stempen, Steven L. Stevenson: Myxomycetes. A Handbook of Slime Molds . Timber Press, 1994, ISBN 0-88192-439-3 (panels 7-10).

[1] Heinrich Dörfelt , Gottfried Jetschke (Ed.): Dictionary of Mycology. 2nd Edition. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8274-0920-9 , p. 246.

[2] Henry Stempen, Steven L. Stevenson: Myxomycetes. A Handbook of Slime Molds . Timber Press, 1994, ISBN 0-88192-439-3 , pp. 165 .

[3] Henry Stempen, Steven L. Stevenson: Myxomycetes. A Handbook of Slime Molds . Timber Press, 1994, ISBN 0-88192-439-3 (panels 7-10).