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 Licea biforis
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 (or sometimes plasmodiocarpous), scattered to gregarious, fusiform, somewhat compressed and occasionally branched, yellow-brown to dark brown or nearly black, 0.1–0.3 mm wide and 0.3–0.8 mm long. Peridium persistent, membranous, thin, dehiscence by means of a preformed longitudinal slit. Spores yellow-brown or brown to almost white in mass, clear yellow to almost colourless by transmitted light, nearly smooth to minutely roughened, 9–12 µm in diameter. Plasmodium watery white, becoming brown.
Habitat:
Bark of living trees and leaf litter
Distribution:
This species has been reported from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and North America (Martin & Alexopoulos 1969, Mitchell 1995, Yammoto 1998, Ukkola 1998). First reported from New Zealand by Mitchell (1992), based on specimens appearing in bark samples placed in moist chamber culture. The bark samples were collected in Bay of Plenty, North Canterbury, and Otago Lakes.
Notes:
No other species of Licea has sessile, elongated (canoe-shaped) sporangia opening by a longitudinal slit
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