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Sporocarpous and/or plasmodiocarpous, scattered, sessile on a broad base, hemispherical in small sporocarps, or depressed and pulvinate, 0.2-0.5 mm wide, up to c. 10 mm long, 0.05-0.3 mm high. Hypothallus absent. Peridium a white crust of compact crystals, fragile, smooth or slightly roughened, adhering mostly to a fragile, transparent, hyaline or pale violaceous inner layer. Dehiscence usually circumscissile leaving a very shallow cup with a nearly vertical rim, in plasmodiocarps sometimes less conspicuously so. Columella absent, the base of the myxocarp roughened with crystals, dull, ivory to pale brown. Capillitium profuse, of very slender, pale brown threads, branched but with few anastomoses, very lightly attached to the base and the peridium, expanding elastically. Spore-mass very dark brown. Spores violaceous, paler on one side, verruculose, the warts arranged in sinuous rows, sometimes forming a reticulum, 10-13 µm diam.
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- Härkönen,M., Koponen, H. 1978: Myxomycetes developed on grain in moist chamber cultures. Karstenia 18: 58-62.
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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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