Stemonitis
Also known as: 1. Chocolate Tube
2. Tree Hair
3. Cat-tail (an angiosperm plant, not actual cat-tail!)
4. Slime Mould
,Classification
u Division: Myxomycota
u Class: Myxomycetes
u Order: Stemoniales
u Family: Stemoniaceae
u Genus: Stemonitis
u Mode of nutrition: Saprophytic
u Morphological forms: 1. Plasmodium Stage 2. Sporangial
Stage
,Vegetative Thallus
u Naked mass of protoplasm (remember using slime mould)
u NO cell wall (slime mould)
u Coenocytic
u Aphanoplasmodium (a structure made of thin protoplasmic strands)
u Streaming of Nuclei (movement of nuclei) is rapid, reversible and rhythmic.
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Also known as: 1. Chocolate Tube
2. Tree Hair
3. Cat-tail (an angiosperm plant, not actual cat-tail!)
4. Slime Mould
,Classification
u Division: Myxomycota
u Class: Myxomycetes
u Order: Stemoniales
u Family: Stemoniaceae
u Genus: Stemonitis
u Mode of nutrition: Saprophytic
u Morphological forms: 1. Plasmodium Stage 2. Sporangial
Stage
,Vegetative Thallus
u Naked mass of protoplasm (remember using slime mould)
u NO cell wall (slime mould)
u Coenocytic
u Aphanoplasmodium (a structure made of thin protoplasmic strands)
u Streaming of Nuclei (movement of nuclei) is rapid, reversible and rhythmic.
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