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Sporocarps gregarious, 1-2 mm total height. Sporotheca dark purplish brown, erect or slightly nodding, globose, 0.4-0.8 mm. diam., calyculus c. 33% the sporotheca diam. and marked with irregular, dark, granular rays, the margin toothed. Peridial net rather fine-meshed, the connecting threads narrow, the nodes flat and angular, not greatly thickened, densely filled with large, dark calcic granules, making them appear black, free ends abundant, often branched and arising both from nodes and connecting threads. Stalk slender, 35-75% of the total height, furrowed, light at the apex, dark below. Spore-mass ochraceous brown. Spores clear violet, globose or somewhat angular, verruculose and covered with a coarse and often imperfect reticulum of 3-5 meshes to the hemisphere, 8-8.8 µm diam.
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- Kowalski,D.T. 1973: New records of Myxomycetes from California. V. Madrono 22: 97-100.
- Martin,G.W. 1932: New species of slime moulds. The Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 22: 88-92.
- Martin,G.W. 1947: Taxonomic notes on Myxomycetes. II. Mycologia 39: 453-462.
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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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