Amoebozoa > Mycetozoa > Myxogastria > Order Liceales > Family Tubiferaceae.
The family is also seen in databases as:
Reticulariaceae including the genera Lycogala, Reticularia and Tubifera and
Lycogalaceae with 10 genera including Lycogala, Lycoperdon, Reticularia and Tubifera.
The densely packed sporangia (fruiting bodies) form an aethalium.
Aethalia can be yellow, pink, red or dark brown and dull or shiny.
The spores are typically light yellow to reddish-brown.
Tubifera.
The around 12 Tubifera species grow on decaying wood.
The plasmodium produces a hypothallus from which clusters of oblong sporangia grow.
Many densely packed white, pink, red, orange or brown oblong sporangia form an aethalium.
The individual fruit bodies open at the tip to release the pale yellow or red-brown spores.
J.F.
