Trichia botrytis
(J.F. Gmel.) Pers. 1794
Description:
SPORANGIA: total height 1.5 to 5 mm., stalked, piriform or turbinate, free or combined in small clusters, 0.6 to 0.8 mm. diam., yellowish olive, reddish brown, brown, or purple, often areolate with paler lines of dehiscence.

STALK: cylindrical, often adherent in clusters of two to eight, furrowed, red or purplish brown, consisting within of spongy tissue enclosing refuse matter.

PERIDIUM: of two layers, the outer charged with granular matter and continued into the stalk, the inner membranous, translucent, enclosing the spores.

CAPILLITIUM: of cylindrical yellowish brown elaters 4-5 fi diam., sometimes branched, gradually tapering to long slender points which are smooth at the tips, marked with three to five flattened, or prominent lax and often rugged, spiral bands.

SPORES: Ochraceous yellow, minutely spinulose,
9 - 11 µm diam..

PLASMODIUM: Purple-brown.
HABITAT: On dead wood.

DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan, known from Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Buller, South Canterbury and Southland.
Macro images:
Metatrichia floriformis
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Scale= 1.25 mm.
 
Trichia botrytis
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Scale= 1.25 mm.
 
Trichia botrytis
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Scale= 1 mm.
Close up view of immature fruiting body's. showing the areolate with paler lines of dehiscence.
Trichia botrytis
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Scale= 0.5 mm.
Less common are these fruiting body's with next to no stalk.
Trichia botrytis
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Scale= 0.5 mm.
Micro images:
Trichia botrytis
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Magnification = 1000x
Capillitium: showing the finaly tapering free ends of the elaters.
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Magnification =1000x
Spores: 9-11µm minutely spiny.
 
 
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