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Sporocarps stalked, gregarious, 0.2-0.5 mm diam., 0.5-0.8 mm tall, broadly funnel-shaped or goblet-shaped. Peridium single, cartilaginous, pinkish brown, bearing scattered brown lime granules, darker below, operculum convex, thin, pale brown, membranous, falling off at dehiscence. Stalk up to 50% of the total height, reddish brown, limeless. Capillitium rather dense, consisting of small, rounded or regular, brownish nodes connected by short, hyaline threads, the nodes larger towards the centre and sometimes tending to form a pseudocolumella. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores dusky brown, spinulose, 9-10 µm diam. Plasmodium milky, then cream coloured.
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- Bozonnet,J.M., Meyer, M., Poulain, M. 1992: Special Myxomycetes. [Collection of some small papers and a checklist for the Savoyen. Bull.Trim.Fed.Myc.Dauphine-Savoie 125: 1-40.
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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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