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THE BALLISTOSPORIC PROTOSTELID GENUS SCHIZOPLASMODIUM
Author(s) -
Olive Lindsay S.,
Stoianovitch Carmen
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1976.tb13224.x
Subject(s) - biology , genus , flagellate , new guinea , zoology , botany , bark (sound) , ecology , ethnology , history
The genus Schizoplasmodium is a member of the Protostelia, a primitive subclass of mycetozoans. It has previously been known only from the commonly occurring type species, S. cavostelioides Olive and Stoianovitch. Two additional species of rare occurrence are described here— S. obovatum , found on bark of living trees in Florida and Uganda, and S. sechellarum , found in the Seychelles Islands and Papua New Guinea on old corn and leguminous capsules. All three members of the genus produce reticular plasmodia but lack flagellate cells. The most unusual feature of the group is the production of ballistospores that are discharged from their stalks by the development and explosion of gas bubbles.