Physarum aeneum

The plasmodiocarps' fruit bodies are mostly expanded over several centimetres and amasses in groups, which can be produced simple, branched or cancellate.

They are pink to brown, light olive, grey or bronze-coloured, and have a shiny or iridescent surface and a diameter from 0.3 to 0.4 mm.

[1] The reticular, dense capillitium is composed of transparent strands, which connect the small, rotund to angular, light yellow to medium brown, occasionally whitish-coloured lime tubercles.

The spores are in diameter 7 to 9 (rarely 6 to 10) μm and are nearly smooth to finely spiky and in the mass brown, individually pale purple or purple brown in transmitted light, occasionally groups of bigger, darker warts are found on them.

[1] The holotype was collected in 1896 or 1897 on Dominika on palm leaves, first described as a variety of Physarum murinum in 1898 by Arthur Lister and grouped into a separate species in 1903 by Robert Elias Fries.