Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Cribraria minutissima Schw. Trans. Am. Phil
Soc. II. 4: 260. 1832.
Cribraria minima Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Grevillea 2: 67. 1873.
Cribraria microscopica Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Grevillea 2: 67. 1873.
Cribraria oregana H. C. Gilbert; Peck & Gilbert, Am. Jour. Bot. 19: 142. 1932.
Sporangia minute, scattered, stalked, erect, nut-brown or orange-brown, sometimes coppery, 0.1-0.3 mm. in diameter; cup variable, when fully mature separated from the net by a shallow constriction, more commonly the constriction not present, and the cup sometimes entirely lacking; nodes expanded but not thickened, bearing pale granules, the connecting threads flattened, free ends lacking; hypothallus none; stalk brown, one to four times the height of the sporangium ; spores yellow in mass, pallid by transmitted light, minutely roughened, 6-8 p. in diameter.
Type locality: North Carolina.
Habitat: Dead wood, often among mosses.
Distribution : Widely distributed in the United States ; Europe ; Hawaii ; Asia.
- 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
