Tubifera

The fruit-bodies are aethalia formed from numerous, usually densely packed sporangia. The oblong sporangia are ochre, pink or red to dark brown and may be shiny or shimmering. They open at the tip to release the spores.

The hypothallus is spongy, occasionally raised to a stem-like, stock, dark-coloured structure or also, on Tubifera bombarda, soft and film-like thin. The membranous, single layered peridium outlasts the below half. A pseudocapillitium may or may not be present. The spores are light yellow to reddish-brown.

Tubifera ferruginosa and Tubifera microsperma are more widespread and common than the other species from this genus. All species, except Tubifera casparyii, are also common in the tropics.

The genus was circumscribed in 1873 by Józef Thomasz Rostafiński. The type species is Tubifera ferruginosa, first characterized as a Stemonitis species.

The genus comprises the following 12 species:

• Tubifera applanata{{cite journal |author1=Leontyev, D.V. |author2=Fefelov, K.A. |title=Nomenclatural status and morphological notes on Tubifera applanata sp. nov. (Myxomycetes) |journal=Mycotaxon |year=2012 |volume=120 |pages=247–51 |doi=10.5248/120.247|doi-access=free }}
• Tubifera casparyii
• Tubifera corymbosa{{Cite journal|title = A critical revision of the Tubifera ferruginosa complex|url = http://www.mycologia.org/content/107/5/959|journal = Mycologia|date = 2015-09-01|issn = 0027-5514|pmid = 26240306|pages = 959–985|volume = 107|issue = 5|doi = 10.3852/14-271|language = en|first = Dmitry V.|last = Leontyev|first2 = Martin|last2 = Schnittler|first3 = Steven L.|last3 = Stephenson}}
• Tubifera dictyoderma
• Tubifera dimorphotheca
• Tubifera dudkae
• Tubifera ferruginosa
• Tubifera magna
• Tubifera microsperma
• Tubifera montana
• Tubifera papillata
• Tubifera pseudomicrosperma

File:Tubifera applanata.jpg|Tubifera applanata

File:Tubifera corymbosa-2.jpg|Tubifera corymbosa

File:Tubifera dudkae-1.jpg|Tubifera dudkae

File:Tubifera microsperma 526137.jpg|Tubifera microsperma

• Alwisia bombarda (as Tubifera bombarda){{Cite journal|title = The genus Alwisia (Myxomycetes) revalidated, with two species new to science|url = http://www.mycologia.org/content/106/5/936|journal = Mycologia|date = 2014-09-01|issn = 0027-5514|pmid = 24987129|pages = 936–948|volume = 106|issue = 5|doi = 10.3852/13-314|language = en|first = Dmitry V.|last = Leontyev|first2 = Martin|last2 = Schnittler|first3 = Gabriel|last3 = Moreno|first4 = Steven L.|last4 = Stephenson|first5 = David W.|last5 = Mitchell|first6 = Carlos|last6 = Rojas}}

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Michael J. Dykstra, Harold W. Keller: Mycetozoa In: An illustrated guide to the protozoa : organisms traditionally referred to as protozoa, or newly discovered groups, Society of Protozoologists, 2000, p.977

Marie L. Farr: Myxomycetes, New York Botanical Garden, 1976, p.101

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Category:Myxogastria