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Plasmodium colourless or grey. Sporocarps stalked, up to 1 mm high. Hypothallus discoid and dark. Stalk 0.2-0.8 mm long, cylindrical, stout, grooved, black and opaque from refuse matter. Sporotheca discoid with a wide, dark, basal umbilicus, 0.2 mm thick and 0.5-1 mm diam., white. Peridium with a thickened basal plate, purple-brown and, with the exception of the basal plate, dusted with white stellate lime crystals which are larger than the spores. Dehiscence into fragments above. Columella absent. Capillitial threads abundant, thin, sparsely dichotomously branched, colourless or pale purple, radiating from the basal plate. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores almost colourless, (5-)6-8 µm diam., with widely spaced, very fine, pale warts, sometimes cluster-warted.
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- Dangeard,P. 1947: Notes biologiques et cytololiques sur un Myxomycete (Didymium clavus). Le Botaniste 33: 39-57.
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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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