Site Help: Fuligo septica, 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
claypa,
The slime moulds are a fascinating group, but do not belong in either PlantFiles or BugFiles.
They were once, along with the fungi, placed in the plant kingdom, but are now placed in a quite separate kingdom (separate even from the fungi). They now share with the algae the Kingdom Protoctista.
We do not have a database for Protoctista (nor for Fungi) nor even for Mosses and Liverworts that are true plants.
I recently found this attractive little slime mould (Trichia verrucosa) growing on the end of a large log in Morwell National Park here in Australia:
Ken