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Diderma hemisphaericum (Bull) Hornem
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Plasmodium white. Sporocarps stalked. Hypothallus discoid, membranous and often with some white lime. Stalk stout, grooved, limy. Sporotheca discoid, 0.5-1.5 mm diam., white or pale grey. Peridium double, the outer layer forming a smooth lime shell, the inner layer colourless. Columella large, discoid, pale or dark brown, limy. Capillitial threads thin, colourless or pale, dichotomously branched with only a very few anastomoses. Spore-mass brown. Spores pale pinkish-grey, 7-9 µm diam., usually cluster-warted.

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References
  • Eliasson,U., Nannenga-Bremekamp, N. E. 1983: Myxomycetes from the Scalesia-Forest, Galapagos Islands. Proceedings.Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.Ser.C, Biological and medical sciences 86(2): 148-153.
  • Härkönen,M., Saarimäki, T. 1991: Tanzanian Myxomycetes: first survey. Karstenia 31: 31-54.

Acknowledgements
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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