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 Cribraria confusa
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, scattered to gregarious, 0.3–0.7 mm tall. Sporotheca globose, usually erect but sometimes nodding, bright yellow to golden, 0.1–0.3 mm in diameter. Stalk slender, tapering to the apex and longitudinally striate, deep yellow to dark brown, 0.2–0.4 mm long. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Peridial net with angular meshes, slightly flatted[?flattened] nodes and connecting threads without free ends. Calyculus absent or reduced to a small membranous disk at the base of the sporotheca; dictydine granules yellowish brown, 1–1.5 µm in diameter. Spores bright yellow in mass, greyish yellow to almost colourless by transmitted light, subglobose to slightly polygonal, minutely spiny, 6–7 µm in diameter. Plasmodium unknown.
Habitat: Bark of living trees.
Distribution: Reported from scattered localities in North America (Keller et al. 1988), Europe (Lado & Pando 1997), Africa (Ukkula 1998), and Asia (Yamamoto 1998). Not reported in print as occurring in New Zealand but appearing on a bark samples of Nothofagus fusca placed in moist chamber culture. The bark sample was collected in Fiordland.
Notes: This species was not recognised as distinct from Cribraria minutissima until recently (Nannenga-Bremekamp 1983), so information relating to its world distribution is still incomplete.
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