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Sporocarps gregarious to crowded, sessile or short-stipitate, total height 0.6-1.2 mm. Sporothecae globose, iridescent bronze or purple, 0.5-0.9 mm diam. Stalk, when present, short, thick, tapered upward, densely charged with orange lime globules. Columella orange or deep yellow, rough, cylindrical or conical, obtuse, reaching 50% of the height of the sporotheca. Capillitium lax, radiating from all parts of the columella, consisting of slender, rigid, branched and anastomosed, brown threads. Hypothallus orange, venulose, sometimes confluent. Spore-mass brown. Spores pale violaceous, verruculose, sometimes faintly or conspicuously cluster-warted, 11-13 µm diam. Plasmodium deep yellow.
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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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