Nannengaella mellea

Previously known as Physarum melleum.

Sporangia :gregarious, stalked, erect to 1.5 mm high, globose, about 0.5 mm. diam., yellow or brownish yellow;

Peridium: wall membranou, srugose, persistent at the base, encrusted with lime, with small, yellow lime-granules.

Stalk: white, buff, yellow, or orange, stout cylindric or tapering upward, opaque, chalky in section, charged with lime-granules.

Columella: short, conical, white or yellowish, rarely orange

Capillitium: of irregularly branching, delicate, hyaline threads, often expanded at the axils, with white or yellow lime nodes, usually large and angled, but various in size and shape.

Nannengaella mellea is listed in the following regions:

South Coast


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Species information

  • Nannengaella mellea Scientific name
  • Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Machine learning

Location information

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