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Plasmodium white. Usually forming scattered, expanded and lobed, flattened plasmodiocarps 1-3 mm diam., occasionally sporocarpous and then discoid and 0.5-0.7 mm diam., sessile or rarely with a very short, dark brown stalk. Peridium single, membranous, with deposits of lime globules forming a thin, irregular crust. Columella flesh-coloured, sometimes almost obsolete. Capillitium coarse, purplish or colourless, often with membranous expansions at the joints. Spores pale purplish-grey, minutely and closely spinulose, (10-)12-13(-15) µm diam.
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- Krieglsteiner,L.G. 1996: Ergänzungen zur Myxomyceten-Fauna Deutschlands I: Über die corticolen Arten Badhamia versicolor A. Lister und Diderma chondrioderma (de Bary & Rost.) G. Lister. Rheinl.-Pf.Pilzj. 5: 122-133.
- Moreno,G., Illana, C., Heykoop, M. 1989: Contribution to the study of the Myxomycetes of Spain I.. Mycotaxon 34(2): 623-635.
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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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