🇺🇸 Hemitrichia decipiens - 🇩🇪 Rotköpfiger Schleimpilz - 🇫🇮 Nuijanuoranen - 🇷🇺 Гемитрихия обманчивая 9/28/25
🆔 Hemitrichia decipiens (Pers.) García-Cunch., J.C.Zamora & Lado
ℹ️ Plasmodium color / stage: In active phase, plasmodium is white or pale, later may show orange or salmon tints toward maturity
ℹ️ Fruiting bodies: Sporocarps borne on slender stalks, typically egg-shaped or conical; the sporangia are often clustered and brightly colored in development
ℹ️ Peridium: Thin peridium, often shining, ranging from orange-yellow to more olive or brown with age; peridium may persist as a calyculus when spores dehisce
ℹ️ Stalk is part of the sporocarp
🟤 Spore mass olive to olive-yellow spore mass inside sporangium
🪵 Habitat: On decaying wood (logs, branches) in conifer and mixed forests, present in clusters on rotten wood surfaces in humid conditions
🔄 Amoeboflagellate cells → multinucleate → sporulation producing stalked sporangia with internal spores → spores released and germinating back to amoeboflagellates
📏 Sporangia dimensions: Sporangia up to ~0.6–0.8 mm in diameter, stalked up to ~3 mm tall (or less) in many populations
🔬 Spores: Globose to subglobose, ~10–13 µm in diameter, reticulate or warty; Capillitia: net-like network of threads that often take on the spore color; Stalk: Tissue may contain pseudocclusions in some populations
🔤 Visually striking slime mold that produces clustered, bright orange to olive sporangia on decaying wood—resembling salmon eggs
🇺🇸 Hemitrichia decipiens - 🇩🇪 Rotköpfiger Schleimpilz - 🇫🇮 Nuijanuoranen - 🇷🇺 Гемитрихия обманчивая