Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Hemitrichia intorta (Lister) Lister, Mycet. 176. 1894
Hemiarcyria intorta Lister, Jour. Bot. 29: 268. S 1891. Hemiarcyria longifila Rex, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1891: 396. 22 S 1891.
Sporangia gregarious, stalked, turbinate or pyriform, 0.3-0.7 mm. broad, golden-yellow; peridium thin, translucent, shining, opening irregularly above, the lower portion remaining as a deep cup; stalk dark red-brown, solid, rugulose, 0.5-0.7 mm. tall; capillitium consisting of a small number of long, orange-yellow threads, sparingly branched, but looped and intertwisted, 3-4 & in diameter, bearing four or five even and regular, spinulose spirals, connected by conspicuous longitudinal striae; spores golden-yellow in mass, yellow by transmitted light, delicately warted, 8-10 y. in diameter; Plasmodium watery-white.
Type locality: England.
Habitat: Dead wood.
Distribution: Massachusetts to Ontario, south to Pennsylvania and Iowa; Europe; Ceylon.
- bibliographic citation
- George Willard Martin, Harold William Rickett. 1949. FUNGI; MYXOMYCETES; CERATIOMYXALES, LICEALES, TEICHIALES, STEMONITALES, PHYSARALES. North American flora. vol 1. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
