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Sporocarps gregarious, stalked, 1-1.25 mm total height. Sporotheca globose to ovoid, 0.35-0.45 mm diam. Stalk 50-75% of the total height, dark orange or dark brown, glossy, faintly striate, consisting of a translucent, brown membrane densely packed with white, ± angular lime crystals 5-15 µm diam. Columella ± cylindrical with the same structure as the stalk. Peridium delicate, moderately silvery-iridescent, usually persisting at the base as a broad, slightly rugose disc or shallow cup, pale brown and smooth by TL. Capillitium arising along the length of the columella, consisting of an open, loose, easily-detached network of delicate, dark brown, smooth, slightly wavy, branching and anastomosmg threads 1-2 µm diam., with many concolorous or slightly paler free ends. Hypothallus membranous, discoid. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores dark purplish brown, 10-14 µm diam., closely, unevenly spinulose, sometimes with a densely warted area 3.5-5 µm diam.
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- Farr,M.L. 1969: Myxomycetes from Dominica. Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian Biological Survey of Dominica. Myxomycetes from Dominica. [= Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.]. Bulletin of the National Science Museum.Series B, Botany 37(6): 397-440.
- Lado,C., Rodriguez-Palma, M., Estrada-Torres, A. 1999: Myxomycetes from a seasonal tropical forest on the pacific coast of Mexico. Mycotaxon 71: 307-321.
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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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