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Diderma cinereum Morgan
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Diderma cinereum
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Diderma cinereum

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Sporocarps sessile, gregarious, subglobose, somewhat depressed, 0.3-0.5 mm diam., pearl-grey. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Peridium apparently single, thin, smooth, crustose, dehiscing irregularly. Capillitium of slender, dark threads, sparsely branched, easily detached from the columella. Spore-mass black. Spores dark violet-grey, 9-11 µm diam., verruculose. Plasmodium unknown.

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  • Buyck,B. 1988: The Diderma spumaroides-globosum complex. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 58: 169-218.

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

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