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Sporocarps gregarious or crowded, stipitate or sessile, rarely plasmodiocarpous, 0.6-1 mm total height. Sporothecae greenish grey varying to dull iridescent blue, 0.4-0.8 mm diam. Stalk conical, calcareous, not exceeding 50% of the total height, often much shorter or lacking, white, dull grey, or brownish. Hypothallus netted, scanty, either calcareous or limeless. Columella short, conical, rarely lacking. Capillitium delicate, radiating from the columella, composed of light brown, branched and anastomosed threads with paler tips. Spore-mass dark. Spores pallid, spinulose, the spines connected by a delicate reticulation, 8-11(-12) µm diam. Plasmodium yellow.
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- Adamonyte,G. 1999: Myxomycetes of the genus Diachea Fr. in Lithuania. Botanica Lithuanica 5(1): 85-89.
- Gaither,T.W., Keller, H. W. 2004: Taxonomic comparison of Diachea subsessilis and D. deviata (Myxomycetes, Didymiaceae) using scanning electron miscroscopy. Syst.Geogr.Pl. 74: 217-230.
- Liu,C.-H., Chen, Y.-F. 1999: Myxomycetes of Taiwan - XII. New records and newly rediscovered species. Taiwania 44(3): 368-375.
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Acknowledgements | |
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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