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Sporocarps 0.7-1 mm total height. Sporothecae globose or somewhat depressed, iridescent, slightly umbilicate below, 0.5-0.7 mm diam., coppery above merging into bluish below. Peridium membranous, thin, iridescent, persistent. Dehiscence irregular from above. Stalk stout, expanded at the base and tapered upward, calcareous, crystalline, light orange with violaceous tints, paler or whitish at the base, up to 0.6 mm long. Hypothallus profuse, calcareous, light orange with violaceous tints. Columella conical, calcareous, crystalline, ending below the sporotheca centre, concolorous with the stalk. Capillitium non-calcareous, dense, composed of violaceous brown, branched and anastomosed threads, tapered to the paler extremities. Spore-mass black. Spores deep violaceous brown to dark brown, globose, prominently and profusely verrucose, the warts irregular, dark, 0.5-1 µm long, with clusters of smaller, paler warts on the inner wall, 13-14(-16) µm over-all diam. Plasmodium unknown.
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- Thind,K.S., Manocha, M. S. 1964: The Myxomycetes of India XVII. Mycologia 56: 712-717.
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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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