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Cribraria laxa Hagelst
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Sporocarps closely gregarious, erect, total height 1-1.6 mm. Sporotheca globose, 0.4-0.6 mm diam., deep ochraceous brown. Stalk dark brown, furrowed, 0.7-1.4 mm long. Peridial cup occupying c. 30% of the sporotheca, strongly ribbed with numerous cross veins connecting the ribs, between them a thin glistening partly fugacious membrane. Peridial net arising from the ribs, wide-meshed, the nodes large, thickened, pulvinate, dark brown, packed with minute calcic granules, c. 0.5 µm diam., the connecting threads slender and lax with few free ends. Hypothallus very broad. Spore-mass clay-coloured. Spores pale, warted, 6-7 µm diam. Plasmodium unknown.

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References
  • Hagelstein,R. 1929: New Mycetozoa from Long Island. Mycologia 21: 297-299.
  • Yamamoto,Y., Izawa, M. 1996: Cribraria laxa, new to Japan. The Myxomycetes 14: 15-16.

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The Eumycetozoan Project -- working to understand the ecology, sytematics and evolution of myxomycetes, dictostelids and protostelids -- the true slime molds.

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