Number of species in the collection: 1.
Pictures of Liceales:
Characteristics of Liceales:
EThe order Liceida (named after the type genus Licea) is a group with a
worldwide distribution, comprising few species, generally scarce and of little
ecological significance.
Like the rest of the class Myxogastrea, its species can have unicellular
amoeboid phases, unicellular flagellated phases, and phases where cells fuse
together forming gelatinous masses, which eventually develop into sporangia. Its
species are generally characterized by fruiting bodies that lack a true
capillitium (hardened network that holds the spore masses, although sometimes
they have a pseudocapillitium), and by internally developed spores with light
colours.
Species of Liceales present in the collection:
Lycogala epidendrum (Linnaeus) Fries.
28-July-2021.
Europe, Spain, Comunidad Valenciana, Valencia province, Favara village,
Taxateca´s Garden. Growing on a dead Pinus halepensis trunk after
some days of rain.
Obs: CGB 16381.
Collected by: Carlos Galan Boluda.
Collected by: Carlos Galan Boluda.
Domain: Eukaryota.
Kingdom: Amoebozoa.
Phylum: Conosa.
Class: Myxomycetes.
Order: Liceales.
Family: Enteridiidae.
Genus: Lycogala.
Species: Lycogala epidendrum.
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Forma cuerpos fructíferos de forma globosa o esférica más o menos regular,
frecuentemente solapándose con otros al crecer, agregados, de 0.5-1.5 cm de
diámetro, sin pie, con la superficie muy finamente verrugosa, de color rojo
rosado a rojo escarlata al principio. Al madurar la superficie se hace
membranosa y de color gris a gris pardusco, frágil y fácil de romper liberando
la masa esporal, que es rosada al principio y se torna gris o pardusca. Las
esporas son esféricas con finas verrugas.
Se distribuye por prácticamente todo el mundo, frecuente creciendo sobre madera
muerta, tanto de planifolios como de coníferas, preferentemente sobre maderas
blandas. Fructifica durante periodos de humedad.
Order: Liceales