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Sporocarps gregarious. Sporothecae pear-shaped or sometimes globose, 0.3-0.6 mm diam., purplish-brown. Stalk purple or brown, furrowed, expanded at the apex. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Peridial cup well-defined, occupying one third of the sporotheca, ribbed and marked with lines of calcic granules, dusky brown, the margin narrowly toothed. Peridial net with large triangular meshes, the nodes thickened, dark, filled with large calcic granules up to 2.5 µm diam. Spore-mass dull yellow-brown. Spores pale ochraceous or tinted pinkish, distinctly pale-warted, 6-8 µm diam. Plasmodium slate-grey.
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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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