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Sporocarps stalked, gregarious, up to 1.5 mm total height. Sporothecae flattened-globose or globose, umbilicate below, 0.4-0.6 mm diam. Peridium greyish, composed of a thin translucent membrane covered with clustered crystals, in dehiscence tending to break up into minute scales, each scale bearing clusters of crystals. Columella dark, clavate, rather small, not exceeding 50% of the sporotheca height. Capillitium dark, delicate, not exceeding 1.5 µm diam., sometimes bearing nodular thickenings, flexuous, sparingly branched and anastomosed. Stalk ochraceous, darker below, smooth externally but packed with densely aggregated lime granules, up to 1.2 mm high, 0.2-0.3 mm diam. at base, tapered to 0.1 mm above. Hypothallus inconspicuous, rotate. Spore-mass black. Spores dark yellow-brown, globose to broadly oval, densely verrucose, the warts often clustered and arranged in an obscurely reticulate pattern, 8-10 µm diam. Plasmodium unknown.
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- Chung,C.-H., Liu, C.-H. 1996: Didymium floccosum Martin, Thind & Rehill (Physarales, Myxomycetes) - new to Taiwan. Taiwania 41(3): 175-179.
- Farr,M.L. 1974: Some new Myxomycetes records for the Neotropics and some Taxonomic Problems in the Myxomycetes. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 81: 37-40.
- Martin,G.W., Thind, K. S., Rehill, P. S. 1959: The Myxomycetes of the Mussoorie Hills (India). X. Mycologia 51: 159-162.
- Matsumoto,J., Deguchi, H. 1994: Didymium floccosum (Myxomycetes, Didymiaceae) newly found in Japan. Hikobia 11: 531-534.
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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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