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 Badhamia capsulifera
SynonymsBadhamia capsulifera var. monilifera
Badhamia hyalina
Sphaerocarpus capsulifer
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
Article: Macbride, T.H. (1926). A bit of Polynesian mycology. Mycologia 18(3): 125-131.
Notes: This species is represented by a very peculiar phase. The adherent spores are in all respects
normal, but the fructification as a whole is erionemoid! The sporangia are small, distributed
as bead-like enlargements of the flaccid and thread-like, far extended stipe. When blown
out, as the material before us is, the resemblance is to Erionema. This may be an unusual
presentation; if not, it deserves recognition as varietal at least; B. capsulifera Berk. form-monilifera.
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 (occasionally with a weak, strand-like stalk) or somewhat plasmodiocarpous, clustered to gregarious or in small colonies, globose or obovoid, greyish white or greenish white from spores within or pure white when empty, 0.5–1.5 mm in diameter. Hypothallus usually prominent, consisting of one or more white to brown membranes that are contiguous for a group of sporangia. Peridium consisting of a single layer, thin, translucent, covered with a limy network. Stalk, when present, membranous, weak, yellow or straw coloured. Capillitium consisting of a rather open network of thin, calcareous tubules, scarcely expanded at the nodes, white. Spores black in mass, purplish brown by transmitted light, adhering in firm clusters of mostly 6–20, broadly ovate, warted or bluntly spiny on the exposed surface and elsewhere smooth or nearly so, 11–14 µm in diameter. Plasmodium chrome yellow.
Habitat: Bark of dead branches, sometimes while still attached to a living tree
Notes: This species can be recognized on the basis of the clustered spores and the thin, iridescent peridium.
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