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Plasmodium watery white. Sporocarps gregarious, stipitate, 0.5-1.5(-2.3) mm tall. Stalk black, 50-75% of the total height. Sporotheca globose or short-ovoid, erect, purplish or lilaceous brown, 0.2-0.5(-0.7) mm diam. Columella cylindric, short, rarely reaching to c. 50% the height of the sporotheca and divided at the tip into several stout branches which give rise to most of the capillitium. Capillitium dark brown with few anastomoses and many long, colourless free ends, arising mainly from the tips of the main branches. Spore-mass lilac-purple. Spores pale lilac-grey, verrucose, (6-)7-10 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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