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Aphanoplasmodium colourless. Hypothallus discoid, red-brown. Sporocarps solitary, stalked, 0.1-1 mm total height. Sporotheca globose or ovate, 0.05-0.6 mm diam. Peridium usually forming a collar, the remainder evanescent. Stalk fibrous, dark red-brown, c. 50% of the total height. Columella attaining at least the centre of the sporotheca. Capillitium arising from the tip and sides of the columella, straight and radiating outwards, occasionally dichotomous, anastomosing rarely, the tips mostly bifurcate and pointed. Spore-mass mouse-grey. Spores pale mouse-grey, banded-reticulate, the bands 0.5 µm in height, with c. 20 meshes per hemisphere, (5.5-)6.5-9 µm diam. On dead leaves.
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- Bratteng,A.S. 1975: Comatricha orthotricha, a new species of Myxomycete. Mycologia 67: 413-417.
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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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