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Badhamia iowensis T. Macbr
Life   Amoebozoa   Eumycetozoa   Physaraceae   Badhamia


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Sporocarps gregarious or scattered, stalked, globose or somewhat depressed, ashy white, with a brown cupulate base, 0.4-0.6 mm diam., up to 0.8-1.2 mm total height. Peridium grey, bearing large flakes of white lime, either separated or ± united. Stalk short, cylindrical, rarely exceeding 50% of the total height, black or very dark brown. Hypothallus inconspicuous, somewhat thickened at the expanded base of the stalk. Capillitium dull yellowish to white, the meshes irregular and somewhat physaroid but with very few limeless tubules. Columella absent but with the interior of cup-like peridial base brown and somewhat thickened. Spore-mass black. Spores violaceous, minutely verruculose with patches of clustered darker warts, (10-)11-12 µm diam. Plasmodium unknown.

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References
  • Farr,M.L. 1959: Stemonitis brasiliensis and Badhamia iowensis - a correction. Mycologia 51
  • Keller,H.W., Brooks, T. E. 1975: Corticolous Myxomycetes III: A new species of Badhamia. Mycologia 67: 1218-1222.

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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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