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Arcyria magna Rex
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Sporocarps in large dense or small clusters seated on a common hypothallus. Sporothecae olivaceous grey or ashy (rosy in v. rosea), cylindrical, 1.5-2 mm tall, 0.6-0.8 mm diam., expanding into (5-)10(-15) mm long, drooping plumes. Capillitial tubules 3-4 µm wide not including the decoration of half rings, 5-6 µm diam. including them. Stalks long, slender, often in part confluent with each other, cysts c. 10 µm diam. Calyculus deep, narrow, funnel-shaped, plicate, with scattered papillae or with dense warts some subreticulately connected by fine ridges within, margin slightly revolute. Spores 6-8 µm diam., densely, very minutely, palely warted and with some larger, scattered warts.

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The Eumycetozoan Project -- working to understand the ecology, sytematics and evolution of myxomycetes, dictostelids and protostelids -- the true slime molds.

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