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Sporocarps gregarious, sessile or very short-stalked. Sporothecae subglobose or slightly prolate, often somewhat pointed above or pulvinate, c. 0.5 mm diam., sometimes slightly angular, shining, dark red-brown, sometimes with small pits at the top and/or very fine, pale longitudinal stripes. Hypothallus either thick and limy or inconspicuous when lime-free. Stalk, if present, white or ochraceous or slightly reddish, short, stout, conical, wrinkled, limy and dull. Peridium of two or three layers, the outer layer red-brown, the other(s) white and calcareous. Dehiscence into pointed, stellate, revolute lobes. Columella hollow, calcareous, ± hemispherical or conical. Capillitium radiating from the columella towards the peridium, rather weakly connected at both ends, consisting of thin, colourless or pale tubules which are weakly dichotomous, sometimes with a few anastomoses forming a large-meshed net, often with meshes only near the ends. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores 10-12 µm diam., brown-violet and paler on one side, distinctly verruculose. Plasmodium yellow.
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- Lakhanpal,T.N., Mukerji, K. G. 1978: Taxonomic studies on Indian Myxomycetes XI. Some new records of Didymiaceae. Journal of the Indian Botanical Society 57: 174-180.
- Moreno,G., Singer, H., Lizárraga, M. 2003/b: Diderma nigrum, a synonym of Diderma asteroides (Myxomycetes). Oesterriechische Zeitschrift fuer Pilzkunde 12: 23-29.
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The Eumycetozoan Project -- working to understand the ecology, sytematics and evolution of myxomycetes, dictostelids and protostelids -- the true slime molds.
Sponsored by grants from the National Science Foundation.
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