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Sporocarps usually stalked, gregarious, 1-1.5 mm total height. Sporothecae globose or obovate to cylindric, 0.3-0.7 mm diam., sometimes sessile and occasionally subplasmodiocarpous. Peridium white and fragile above, ochraceous, yellow-brown or reddish brown and cartilaginous below. Dehiscence circumscissile, occasionally somewhat irregular but in globose sporocarps always leaving a deep, goblet-shaped cup. capillitium of large, irregular, white or ochraceous lime-knots connected by slender, hyaline tubules, often massed at the centre to form a prominent pseudocolumella. Stalk up to half the total height, sometimes lacking, cylindric or expanded upward, reddish brown, translucent. Hypothallus small, discoid. Spore-mass black. Spores violaceous brown, spinulose, 8-9 µm diam. Plasmodium yellow.
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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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