Trichia contorta

Trichia contorta (Ditmar) Rost. Monog. 259. 1875
Lycogala coniortum Ditmar in Sturm, Dents. Fl. Pilze 1:9. 1813.
Perichaena contorta Fries, Syst. Myc. 3: 192. 1829.
Licea contorta Wallr. Fl, Crypt. Germ. 2: 345. 1833.
Hemitrichia contorta Rost.; Fuckel, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nat. 27-28: 75. 1873.
Trichia reniformis Peck, Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 26: 76. 1874.
Trichia inconspicua Rost. Monog. 259. 1875.
Trichia heterotricha Balf. f.; Cooke, Grevillea 10: 117. 1882.
Trichia advenula Massee, Jour. Roy. Micr. Soc. 1889: 336. 1889.
Trichia Andersoni Rex, Proc. Acad, Phila. 1891: 395. 1891.
Trichia iowensis Macbr. Bull. Nat. Hist. Univ. Iowa 2: 133. 1892.
Trichia Rostafinskii Celak. f. Arch. Nat. Land. Bohmen 7 6 : 37. 1893.
Trichia pachyderma^Celak. f. Arch. Nat. Land. Bohmen 7 6 : 38. 1893.
Trichia intermedia Celak. f. Arch. Nat. Land Bohmen 7 6 : 38. 1 893, Not T. intermedia Massee, 1889.
Sporangia pulvinate or rarely short-stalked, to short-plasmodiocarpous, closely gregarious to scattered, 0,5-0.8 mm. wide, dull yellowish-brown to dark reddish-brown, occasionally blackish ; wall membranous or cartilaginous, more or less thickened with granular material or rarely with lime; capillitium ochraceous or dull yellow in mass, the elaters simple or sometimes branched, 3-5 /x in diameter, bearing four or five even or irregular spiral bands, smooth or spiny or with long, spine-like processes formed by spirals freed from the elater, the ends often more or less swollen and tipped with one or two curved spines; spores bright ochraceous in mass, pale yellow by transmitted light, spinulose, 1013 (-14) n in diameter; Plasmodium watery-white.
Type locality: Germany.
Habitat: Dead wood.
Distribution: Temperate North America; Europe.