Family: Arcyriaceae

Protozoa:> Myxomycota:> Myxomycetes:> Trichiales:> Arcyriaceae:> Arcyria.

An often easy to recognise family as the spore mass is typically brightly coloured, producing stalked or sessile sporangia. A capillitium often consisting of tubular threads branching at wide angles, smooth or ornamented with spines, warts, cog-like prominences or half-rings, free or attached threadlike elements.

Genus: Arcyria