Badhamia utricularis

Fungus / feeder
plasmodium of Badhamia utricularis feeds on basidiome of Trametes versicolor

Fungus / feeder
plasmodium of Badhamia utricularis feeds on basidiome of Stereum hirsutum

Fungus / feeder
plasmodium of Badhamia utricularis feeds on basidiome of Phlebia radiata

Fungus / feeder
plasmodium of Badhamia utricularis feeds on fruitbody of Polyporales

Badhamia utricularis (Bull.) Berk. Trans. Linn
Soc. 21: 153. 1853.
Sphaerocarpus utricularis Bull. Hist. Champ. Er. 128. 1791.
Trichia coerula Trent, in Roth, Catalecta Bot. 1: 229. 1797.
Physarum ovoideum Schum. Enum. PI, Saell. 2: 198. 1803.
Physarum hyalinum 0/3 chalybaeum Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 92. 1805.
Trichia utricularis DC. Fl. Fr. 2: 251. 1805.
Trichia rubiformis Purton, Midi. Fl. 3: 291. 1821. Not T. rubiformis Pers. 1794.
Physarum utriculare Chev. Fl. Paris 1: 337. 1826.
Physarum botryoides Sommerf. Suppl. Fl. Lapp. 242. 1826.
Diderma papaverinum Wallr. Fl. Crypt. Germ. 2: 375. 1833.
Dictydium magnum Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 24: 84. 1872.
Badhamia magna Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 31 : 57. 1879.
Badhamia varia Massee, Monog. 319, in part. 1892.
Sporangia clustered, usually in large colonies, globose, ovoid or obpyriform, 0.5-1 mm. in diameter, mounted on thin, strand-like stalks, occasionally sessile, blue-gray, iridescent violet, or cinereous; peridium iridescent, hyaline or white when empty, smooth, rugulose or netted; stalk when present pallid, yellowish, or tawny, weak, branched, often prostrate; hypothallus dull red, inconspicuous; capillitium delicate, uniform, open, white; spores dull blackish-brown in mass, loosely aggregated into clusters which readily fall apart, spherical, uniformly and distinctly warted, bright violet-brown, 10-14 ft in diameter; Plasmodium yellow.
Typb locality: France.
Habitat: The bark of fallen trees and the basidiocarps of leathery fungi.
Distribution: Maine to Southern Canada and Washington (state), south to New Jersey, New Mexico, and California; South America; Europe; South Africa; Australia. >% (

Badhamia utricularis is a species of slime mold in the family Physaraceae. It was first described as Sphaerocarpus utricularis by Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard in 1789, and was assigned to the genus Badhamia by Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1852.