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Sporocarps sessile, clustered or heaped, 0.2-0.8 mm diam., subglobose, pulvinate or flattened, brown, brick-red, ochraceous or khaki. Hypothallus extensive, concolorous. Peridium single, calcareous, smooth or slightly wrinkled. Columella rarely more than a thickened base to the sporotheca. Capillitium scanty, consisting of delicate pale threads. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores pale violet-brown, 9-11 µm diam., verruculose, sometimes with clusters of larger warts. Plasmodium orange-brown. On heather litter on heaths and moors and birch litter in woodland.
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- Nannenga-Bremekamp,N.E., Yamamoto, Y. 1987: Additions to the Myxomycetes of Japan III.. Proceedings.Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.Ser.C, Biological and medical sciences 90(3): 311-349.
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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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