Fuligo septica "Dog Vomit Slime Mold"

Sample #14: Fuligo septica

 Figure 1: small pockets of Fuligo septica aethalium coming together to fuse

Figure 2: underside of section; immature white spores visible

Phylum: Myxomycota

Family: Physaraceae

Collection Date: 16 October, 2016

Collector: Kristen Maslach

Habitat: logs, living plants, and wood substrates of all kinds

Location: pile of dead wood, Mantua, Ohio

Description: white to yellow slime mass; becomes a cake-like mass of various other colors with black spores underneath as it matures

Key Used: Rollins, Adam and Steven Stevenson .  Slime Molds of Great Smoky Mountain National Park, University of Arkansas.  In Discover Life

http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?guide=Mycetozoa_GSMNP

Steps to Key:

Aethalium

Recognized the morphology and descriptions found on the internet related to reserch

Resources:

http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/crust%20and%20parchment/species%20pages/Fuligo%20septica.htm