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Sporocarps scattered or in groups, stalked. Sporothecae subglobose, flattened or umbilicate below, pearl-grey, pinkish-grey or off-white, 0.8 mm diam. Peridium double, the layers distant and often separating, the outer layer calcareous, the inner layer either reddish-brown throughout or only towards the base. Stalk pale or bright yellow-brown, slender or stout, packed with lime, 0.1-0.8 mm tall. Columella small, brownish-red, usually globose or sometimes hemispherical, sometimes stalked. Capillitium consisting of slender purplish or hyaline threads, branched and anastomosed towards the periphery. Spores pale purplish-brown, faintly spinulose, 8-10 µm diam.
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- 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.
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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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