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Plasmodium white. Sporocarpous to effuse plasmodiocarpous, pulvinate and sessile or rarely with a short, thick, stalk-like base. Peridium double, the outer wall calcareous, smooth, crustose, sometimes free and detached as a lid and then exposing the intact membranous inner wall, sometimes closely united with the inner wall. Columella flat-pulvinate, pinkish brown, sometimes scarcely more than a thickened base. Capillitium consisting of thin, smooth, colourless or pale purple threads, sparingly branched and anastomosed. Spore-mass dark purple. Spores pale violaceous brown, verruculose with faint clusters of larger warts. 7-9(-10) µm diam.
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- Hedbom,K. 1913: Diderma effusum (Schwein.) Morg. och Badhamia rubiginosa (Chev.) Rost. anträffade i värt land. Svensk botanisk tidskrift 7: 305-306.
- Horie,H., Hagiwara, H., Yamamoto, Y., Hirano, T. 1994: Damage of Jew's Mallow, Corchorus oltorius, and Leather Leaf Fern, Rumohra adiantiformis, caused by slime molds. -unknown journal, in Japanese- 41: 127-128.
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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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