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Sporocarps sessile, closely clustered, subglobose, slightly flattened, 0.5-1 mm diam., white or pale grey. Hypothallus membranous, inconspicuous. Peridium double, the layers not closely attached, the outer layer forming a smooth, calcareous crust, the inner layer membranous. Columella subglobose, small, white, calcareous. Capillitium of thin, colourless or purple-brown threads, dichotomously branched but hardly anastomosed. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores dark purple-brown, 9-12 µm diam., densely verruculose, often with small clusters of darker warts. Plasmodium white.
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- Buyck,B. 1988: The Diderma spumaroides-globosum complex. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 58: 169-218.
- Nannenga-Bremekamp,N.E. 1968: Notes on Myxomycetes. XVI. Remarks on some species of Diderma. Proceedings.Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.Ser.C, Biological and medical sciences 71: 189-200.
- Thind,K.S., Khara, H. S., Soni, J. S. 1971: The Myxomycetes of India-XXIV. Proceedings.Indian Academy of Sciences.Plant sciences 41(1): 47-58.
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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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