Heterotallic (dioecious) species. It forms large (60–90 (180) microns in diameter) spherical multispore sporangia , often with a crown, first white, then darkening to dark brown, as well as sporangioli - small ovoid sporangia of 10-16 × 8-12 microns, on branched sporangiophores deprived of crowns, usually containing 3 spores. The walls of sporangia are covered with crystals of calcium oxalate. When ripening sporangia open with two wings, releasing spores. In poorer environments , large sporangia on columella predominate, with the addition of nutrients to the environment, the proportion of sporangioles increases. Sporangiospores are elliptical or spindle-shaped, 8-12 × 4-8 microns, colored, with several colorless appendages.
Chlamydospores are intercalary, widely elliptical to fusiform or irregular in shape, 13–28 × 11–20 μm.
In cultures, zigosporangia appear on the surface and inside the substrate, colored, with numerous unpainted zygospores.
The cultures are first white, then with yellow spots. Aerial mycelium is not septic, to a varying degree developed. Sporangiophores mainly on substrate mycelium.
Scoop
Anticarsa gemmatilis It was first described in 1914 in the 58th issue of Botanical Gazette by American mycologist Roland Thaxter . The type was isolated from the caterpillar of the scoop Anticarsia gemmatalis infected with the entomopathogen Nomuraea rileyi , collected in Florida in 1912 by Owen Francis Burger and sent to Harvard University from Gainesville by Howard Samuel Fawcett . Named after Albert Francis Blacksley for his contribution to the study of mushroom mushrooms. In particular, it was Blacksley who discovered the phenomenon of heterotallism in the mucorids.
