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 Licea pusilla
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 sessile sporangium, gregarious, globose-pulvinate on a somewhat restricted base, dark purplish brown to brown to almost black, shining, 0.2–1.5 mm in diameter. Peridium thin, dark translucent, dehiscent from above into pre-formed lobes, each of the latter with a row of warts along the margin. Spores dark olive in mass, light olivaceous brown by transmitted light, the wall thinner on one side, densely and minutely warted, 15–17 µm in diameter. Plasmodium watery brown or dull yellow
Habitat: Dead wood and bark.
Distribution: First reported from New Zealand by Mitchell (1992), based on specimens appearing on bark samples placed in moist chamber culture. The bark samples were collected in Bay of Plenty and Mid Canterbury.
Notes: This species and Licea minima are very similar in appearance, but the latter has appreciably smaller spores.
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