Diderma cinereum
Morgan
Description:
SPOROCARPS: 0.3- 0.8 mm, gregarious, more or less crowded or even confluent, sub-globose, only slightly depressed, ashen white; the peridium not obviously double, very smooth and thin, rupturing irregularly;

HYPOTHALLUS: an indistinct membrane or lacking;

COLUMELLA: a large, globose or hemispheric, white, the surface granulose;

CAPILLITIUM: of very slender colored threads, the extremities pellucid, more or less branched.

SPORES: Violaceous, minutely warted,
9-11 µm diam.

PLASMODIUM: ?
HABITAT: On dead wood, twigs, and leaves.

DISTRIBUTION: Rare, Auckland.
Macro images:
Diderma cinereum
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Scale= 0.75 mm.
 
Diderma cinereum
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Scale= 0.75 mm.
 
Diderma cinereum
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Scale= 1.5 mm.
After spore dispersal.
Diderma cinereum
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Scale= 1 mm.
 
Diderma cinereum
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Scale= 0.33 mm.
 
Hidden Forest
Slime Moulds