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Sporocarps sessile or subsessile, usually slightly oblong and angular from mutual pressure, 0.5-0.8 mm diam., rose-grey when fresh, fading to beige or ochraceous. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Peridium a rather tough translucent membrane, ochraceous or sometimes pinkish by TL, papillate or finely reticulate on the inner surface. Dehiscence irregular, the basal part usually persistent. Capillitial tubules 2-8 µm diam., rather irregular, anastomosed into a wide-meshed net that is connected to the peridium, not or hardly elastic, decorated with warts or spines. Spore-mass at first pink, later beige. Spores almost colourless, 6-8 µm diam., either smooth or with fine, pale warts and with some small groups of rather inconspicuous wartlets. Plasmodium white or pink.
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- Illana,C., Moreno, G., Castillo, A., Garcia, J. R. 1997: Myxomycetes de Espana. IX. Taxones criticos y raros para Extremadura. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 18(3): 233-246.
- Rammeloo,J. 1974: Structure of the Epispore in the Trichiaceae (Trichales, Myxomycetes) as seen with the scanning microscope. Bulletin de la Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique 107: 353-359.
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The Eumycetozoan Project -- working to understand the ecology, sytematics and evolution of myxomycetes, dictostelids and protostelids -- the true slime molds.
Sponsored by grants from the National Science Foundation.
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