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Physarum

Notes

Fruiting a stalked or sessile sporangium or forming a tubular network on surface of substrate, lime-encrusted outer wall layer. Spore mass dark. Thirty-four 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)
 Physarum albescens
 Physarum album
 Physarum alpestre
 Physarum alpinum
 Physarum bitectum  
 Physarum bivalve  
 Physarum bogoriense
 Physarum braunianum
 Physarum cinereum  
 Physarum citrinum
 Physarum compressum  
 Physarum decipiens
 Physarum dictyospermum
 Physarum didermoides
 Physarum flavicomum
 Physarum globuliferum
 Physarum gyrosum
 Physarum hongkongense
 Physarum lateritium
 Physarum leucophaeum  
 Physarum leucopus
 Physarum licheniforme
 Physarum limonium
 Physarum melleum  
 Physarum notabile
 Physarum nucleatum
 Physarum obscurum
 Physarum pezizoideum
 Physarum pusillum  
 Physarum robustum
 Physarum serpula
 Physarum straminipes
 Physarum vernum
 Physarum viride