ArcyriaNotesFruiting 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.
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