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Sporocarps gregarious, stalked, c. 2 mm total height. Sporotheca subglobose, shiny, scarlet fading to orange, c. 1 mm diam. Hypothallus membranous, discoid or confluent, brown. Stalk sturdy, conical, 0.2-1.2 mm long, pale orange, filled with white, crystalline lime. Peridium of three closely adherent layers, the outer layer membranous, red or orange, the middle layer calcareous, thick and brittle, the inner layer membranous, colourless and smooth. Dehiscence from the apex, forming 6-8 internally white lobes. Columella conical or globose, calcareous, reaching to the centre of the sporotheca, pale orange. Capillitium rather slender, very pale orange, forming a dense, ± isodiametric net with rounded axils. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores subglobose, medium dark violet-brown, verruculose, 10-11 µm diam.
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- Hernandez-Cuevas,L., Estrada-Torres, A. 1997: Mexican Didymiaceae (Myxomycetes, order Physarales): three new records and comments on Mucilago crustacea. Mycotaxon 62: 319-335.
- Nannenga-Bremekamp,N.E. 1989: Notes on Myxomycetes XXIII. Seven new species of Myxomycetes. Proceedings.Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.Ser.C, Biological and medical sciences 92: 505-515.
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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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