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 Licea castanea
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 occasionally somewhat subplasmodiocarpous), scattered, round-pulvinate to elongated, at first chestnut or pale brown, becoming blackish brown with age, smooth or wrinkled, 0.1–0.9 mm long and 0.1–0.4 mm wide. Peridium somewhat cartilaginous, nearly colourless or pale brown, often overlaid by a more or less continuous layer of dark granules, dehiscence along definite preformed sutures forming plates or stellate lobes whose margins are often marked with a row of minute warts about 1 µm in diameter. Spores pallid to brown in mass, pale yellow to pale brown by transmitted light, smooth or nearly so, paler on one side where the walls are thinner, 9–11 µm in diameter. Plasmodium hyaline, then brown
Habitat:
Bark of living trees; also sometimes occurring on dead wood
Distribution:
Licea castanea is known from Asia, Europe, and North America (Martin & Alexopoulos 1969, Yamamoto 1998). First reported from New Zealand by Mitchell (1992), based on a specimen collected from the bark of Hoheria sp. in North Canterbury.
Notes: The yellow-brown to chestnut colour of the sporangium and the smooth spores from other similar species of Licea.
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