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Plasmodium yellow. Sporocarps stalked, 0.7-1.0 mm tall. Hypothallus small, discoid. Stalk 0.2-0.5 mm long and 0.05-0.07 mm diam., grooved, orange-red, translucent pale yellow usually with orange spots by TL. Sporotheca subglobose, turbinate or obovoid, 0.4-0.6 mm diam., lemon-yellow but fading to almost white. Peridium membranous, pale yellow, single, with yellow lime scales. Dehiscence irregular with a circumscissile crack leaving a cup which is thickened at the base and with an uneven, ragged rim. Capillitium with rather large and irregular yellow or white lime nodes, usually with a rough pseudocolumella in the centre of the sporotheca. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores pale lilac-grey, 8-9(-10) µm diam., delicately verruculose.
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- Moreno,G., Illana, C., Heykoop, M. 1990: Contribution to the study of the Myxomycetes of Spain II.. Mycotaxon 37: 1-24.
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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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