Myxomycete with the ability to accumulate heavy metals. Lamproderma arcyrioides

Abstract

Diagnostic features. Sporocarps stalked, brightly coloured, iridescent, globose or subglobose sporangia; peridium not mottled with brown spots, but with needle-like crystals; capillitium turning white on periphery of net; spores warted, 9–13 µm diam., distinguish from similar L. sauteri Rostaf., which has larger spores (12–16 µm diam.), and from L. scintillans (Berk. & Brome) Morgan, which is smaller, grows on dead leaves, and has a longer stalk and capillitium colourless near the columella.