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 Cribraria persoonii
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
Article: Stephenson, S.L. (2003). Myxomycetes of New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. Ngā Harore o Aotearoa 3: xiv + 238 p. Hong Kong: Fungal Diversity Press.
Description: Fruiting body a stalked sporangium, gregarious, 1.0–2.2 mm tall. Sporotheca subglobose, erect or nodding, hazel-brown or ochraceous-brown, 0.5–0.8 mm in diameter. Stalk equal in length or up to three times the diameter of the sporotheca, tapering upwards, dark brown to black, in transmitted light red-brown, plicate, without inclusions. Hypothallus relatively conspicuous, usually expending over an entire group of sporangia, dark brown. Peridial net with small and more-or-less round or oblong nodes, these thickened and without or almost without free ends, the meshes usually three- or four-sided. Calyculus occupying the lower one-third of the sporotheca, distinctly radially plicate, with fine, concentric wrinkles and bearing a series of regularly placed short ribs or teeth connected by threads to the peridial net; dictydine granules yellow-brown to dark brown, 1.0–1.5 µm in diameter. Spores in mass sandy-coloured or hazel-brown, almost colourless in transmitted light, sometimes with a bright concolourous inclusion, covered with small almost colourless warts, 6.5–7.5 µm in diameter. Plasmodium grey
Habitat: Decaying wood.
Distribution: This species has been reported from Europe and North America (Ing 1999) as well as Asia (Yamamoto 1998). First reported from New Zealand by Mitchell (1992), based on a specimen collected in Westland
Notes: Based on published reports, Cribraria persoonii appears to be restricted to temperate regions of the world. However, this species was not recognised as distinct from C. vulgaris in most earlier surveys.
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