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Badhamia lilacina (Fr) Rostaf
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Badhamia lilacina
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Badhamia lilacina

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Sporocarps gregarious to crowded, globose or obovate, 0.4-0.5(-0.6) mm diam., sessile or rarely with a short, stalk-like base. Peridium double, the outer layer calcareous, crustose, smooth, drab, pinkish or pale lilac-brown to white, the inner layer thin, membranous, colourless, closely appressed. Capillitium dense, white, strongly nodulose but with few or no limeless tubules, often aggregated in the centre as a pseudocolumella. Hypothallus thin, transparent, confluent. Spores-mass black. Spores free, dark violaceous brown, covered with rough warts and ridges, subreticulate, 12-15 µm diam. Plasmodium white, changing to bright yellow before fruiting.

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  • Stelfox,M.P. 1947: The mycetozoon Badhamia lilacina Rost. in Ireland. The Irish naturalist 9

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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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