Metatrichia is a genus of slime molds from the order of the Trichiida. It includes seven types. The fruiting bodies are stalked or sessile sporocarps, which often form pseudo-ethers. The thick-walled, brittle-fragile peridium has one, two or three layers. The outer layer is sculpted smooth or warty. The capillitium consists of simple, branched or reticulated, hollow threads that are dark red to red-brown, they do not glow in polarized light, unlike the reddish to brown spores.

SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION

Kingdom:Animalia
no rank: Amorphea
no rank: Amoebozoa
no rank: Myxogastria
Order: Trichiida
Family: Trichiidae
Genus: Metatrichia

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