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Plasmodium watery white. Sporocarps stipitate, erect, 1-2.5 mm tall. Stalk slender, rigid, black, 66-75% of the total height. Sporotheca globose, (0.25-)0.4-0.6(-0.75) mm diam., silvery or iridescent bronze. Peridium membranous, silvery, the base persisting as a collar after the upper portion has broken away. Columella cylindric, slender, reaching 33-50% the height of the sporotheca and there dividing into 2 or more main branches which give rise to the densely anastomosed outer capillitium. Spore-mass black. Spores violaceous grey, minutely punctate, sometimes with darker clusters, (6-)7-9(-10) µm diam.
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- Nannenga-Bremekamp,N.E. 1967: Notes on Myxomycetes. XII. A revision of the Stemonitales. Proceedings.Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.Ser.C, Biological and medical sciences 70: 201-216.
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Acknowledgements | |
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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