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Fuligo septica (Scrambled egg slime)

Fungimap Target Species

 

Plasmodium:- bright yellow or white.

Sporangia:- Aethalia pulvinate, varying in size from 2 mm. to more than 30 cm., various shades of yellow but can also be  greenish, reddish, and brown to deep chocolate.

The sporangia are intricately coiled and anastomosing, but often more or less separated in the mass, with spaces in between;

The cortex can be thick or thin, a dense crust of lime or undeveloped Plasmodium, loose or firm, or absent entirely; with scattered deposits of lime-granules.

Capillitium:- scanty or abundant, consisting of a loose network of slender hyaline threads, more or less expanded at the axils, with fusiform or branching lime-knots, usually white but often yellow, or occasionally reddish or brownish.

Spores:- Purplish-brown smooth to minutely spiny

Fuligo septica is listed in the following regions:

Canberra & Southern Tablelands  |  South Coast

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