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Dianema nivale (Meyl) G. Lister
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Sporocarps sessile, pulvinate, usually solitary but occasionally in small groups, copper-coloured, iridescent green or gold, 0.5-1.5 diam. Peridium membranous, translucent. Capillitium abundant, consisting of yellow threads radiating from the base, thicker below and branched and forming a reticulum attached to the peridium by slender tips. Spore-mass greyish, fading to yellow. Spores very pale yellow, closely verruculose, 8-12 µm diam. Plasmodium unknown.

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References
  • Bozonnet,J.M., Meyer, M., Poulain, M. 1992: Special Myxomycetes. [Collection of some small papers and a checklist for the Savoyen. Bull.Trim.Fed.Myc.Dauphine-Savoie 125: 1-40.
  • Poulain,M., Meyer, M., Bozonnet, J. M. 2000: Dianema inconspicuum Poulain, Meyer & Bozonnet, espece nouvelle de Myxomycota, et les especies nivales du genre Dianema. Stapfia 73: 85-92.
  • Yamamoto,Y., Ono, S. 1996: Dianema nivale, new to Japan. The Myxomycetes 14: 28-29.

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The Eumycetozoan Project -- working to understand the ecology, sytematics and evolution of myxomycetes, dictostelids and protostelids -- the true slime molds.

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