Sporangia:- clustered, obovoid, rarely globose, short stalked or occasionally sessile, smooth, yellowish brown, chestnut or purplish brown, shining, sometimes dehiscing in revolute lobes; outer layer of the sporangial wall cartilaginous, brittle, orange-brown, usually with dense deposits of lime-granules on the inner side; inner layer a firm, hyaline membrane, giving attachment to the capillitium.
Stalk:- short, or as long as the sporangium, weak, yellowish, translucent, rising from a membranous hypothallus.
Capillitium:- a network of rigid, hyaline threads with flattened expansions at the axils, branching, and anastomosing, yellowish or brownish lime nodes. Spores:- more or less spinulose, very variable in size sometimes slightly clustered.Plasmodium: lemon, then orange-yellow.
Leocarpus fragilis is listed in the following regions:
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