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Sporocarps dark brown, in small clusters on a common hypothallus, short cylindrical to ovoid, 0.5-1.5 mm tall. Peridium fugaceous, persisting at the base as a small collar. Stalk black, shining, up to 50% of the total height. Columella reaching to the apex of the sporotheca. Capillitium arising from the entire length of the columella, consisting of simple or dichotomous, rarely anastomosed, dark purple threads, slender and paler proximally and gradually expanding outwards and ending in short, expanded branched tips which project beyond the remainder of the capillitium. Spore-mass almost black. Spores banded-reticulate with c. 7 meshes across the hemisphere, 10-13 µm diam. including the 1-2 µm high border.
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- Benjamin,R.K., Poitras, A. W. 1950: An addition to the myxomycete genus Comatricha. Mycologia 42: 514-518.
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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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