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Physarum melleum is a type of myxomycetes( plasmodial slime mold) that was previously thought to only grow on dead leaves, but has been observed growing on the living leaves of Dendrobium candidum. The sporangia of Physarum melleum grow to be about 1.5mm in height and are orange in color.

Physarum melleum lives on all continents except Antarctica and like many other types of slime molds, it forms a plasmodium

Most myxomycetes are both homothallic and heterothallic. This species however seems to be exclusively homothallic. In one study, spores from different plasmodia samples were germinated on petri dishes, and the results showed that the new plasmodia that grew were solely clonal, none were heterothallic (Clark 2000)

Physarum melleum has also been found to produce a novel peptide lactone compound called Melleumin A.