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Plasmodium colourless at first, later yellowish. Sporocarps solitary, stalked, 0.3-0.6 mm tall. Stalk up to 0.3 mm, up to c. 50% of the total height, fibrous, reddish brown, arising from a small, concolorous, discoid hypothallus. Sporotheca brown, globose, 0.1-0.35 mm diam. Peridium fugaceous. Columella reaching at least to 50% of the sporotheca height. Capillitium rather lax, arising from the tip and sides of the columella, branched and anastomosed, its main branches dark, the ultimate branches pale and with many minute, globular swellings c. 1 µm diam. Spore-mass chocolate-brown. Spores violaceous brown, with many inclusions, finely and uniformly spinulose, 9.5-10.5 µm diam.
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- Wollman,C., Alexopoulos, C. J. 1968: Comatricha nodulifera, a new Myxomycete from Texas. Canadian journal of botany 46: 157-159.
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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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