Survey of the botanical Phyla
Dictyosteliomycota ![[audio pronunciation]](../sounds/speaker.gif)
Common name
Cellular slime molds
Synonyms
Acrasiomycota (in part)
Mode of nutrition
Heterotrophic: ingestive
Habitat
Terrestrial: moist decaying vegetation
Growth habit
Unicellular myxamoebae (ingestive cells), multicellular dispersal structure
Cell wall
None in myxamoebae, cellulose in sporangium
Undulipodia (“flagella”)
None
Food storage
Glycogen
Clonal reproduction
Mitosis of myxamoebae; production of aplanospores for dispersal
Sexual reproduction
Rare and poorly known
Representative genera
Recognized by
“slugs”, individual (not grouped) stalked sporangia