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Plasmodium white or pink. Sporocarps sessile, dispersed or in small groups. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Sporotheca pulvinate, round or elliptic from above, 0.3-1 mm tall and 0.5-2 mm diam., dark red or brick-red, iridescent. Peridium membranous, thin and translucent, pale ochraceous or almost colourless, smooth or more often finely wrinkled. Dehiscence irregular. Capillitial threads filiform, stiff, wide at the base, forked above and connected to the peridium, rarely dichotomously branched at the base. Spore-mass brick-red. Spores pale yellow-brown, verruculose, (8-)10 µm diam.
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- Kowalski,D.T., Curtis, D. H. 1968: New records of Myxomycetes from California. III. Madrono 19: 246-249.
- Rammeloo,J. 1983: Meise, Nationale Plantentuin van Belgie. 34 p.
- Rex,G.A. 1891: New American Myxomycetes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia 43: 389-398.
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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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