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Arcyria

Notes

Fruiting body a sessile or stalked sporangium, usually more than 0.5 mm tall, sterile filaments amongst the spores highly sculptured, spore mass red, yellow or pale grey. After the wall of the fruiting body breaks the elastic filaments amongst the spores expand in a tangled mass of very fine filaments to often twice the size of the original sporangium. Fourteen species in New Zealand.
Note that only those species listed below have images or descriptions available through the Virtual Mycota.

Name (click to select)Image (click to enlarge)
 Arcyria affinis
 Arcyria cinerea  
 Arcyria denudata
 Arcyria ferruginea
 Arcyria incarnata  
 Arcyria insignis
 Arcyria leiocarpa  
 Arcyria major
 Arcyria minuta
 Arcyria obvelata  
 Arcyria oerstedii
 Arcyria pomiformis
 Arcyria stipata
 Arcyria virescens