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Cribraria

Notes

Fruiting body a tiny stalked sporangium (one species lacks a stalk), the stalk varaible in length. Globose head of the fruiting body comprises a network of very fine threads connected at well-defined nodes. Spores variable in colour. Thirteen species in New Zealand. Species are diffcult to identify without fresh material.
Note that only those species listed below have images or descriptions available through the Virtual Mycota.

Name (click to select)Image (click to enlarge)
 Cribraria argillacea
 Cribraria aurantiaca  
 Cribraria cancellata  
 Cribraria confusa
 Cribraria dictydioides
 Cribraria intricata
 Cribraria macrocarpa
 Cribraria microcarpa  
 Cribraria mirabilis
 Cribraria persoonii
 Cribraria splendens
 Cribraria violacea
 Cribraria vulgaris