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Plasmodium creamy-white. Sporocarpous or plasmodiocarpous, crowded in small groups, sessile or short-stalked, pulvinate, 0.5-1 mm wide and up to 20 mm long, c. 0.3 mm tall, always depressed, when stalked then ± umbilicate below, grey to whitish. Stalk, if present, short and black. Peridium single, colourless above, brown below, encrusted with white lime. Dehiscence irregular. Capillitial tubules filled with white lime, poorly branched and not or sparsely interconnected, radiating from a basal columella which forms a rough basal limey plate. Spore-mass brown. Spores pale lilac-brown, densely covered with dark warts, (12-)14-18 µm diam.
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- Moreno,G., Illana, C., Lizárraga, M. 2001: SEM studies of the myxomycetes from the peninsula of Baja Californica (Mexico), III. Additions. Annales botanici Fennici 38: 225-247.
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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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