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Sporocarps gregarious, stalked, up to 1.8 mm tall. Sporotheca depressed-globose, discoid, usually umbilicate above and below, often sub-annulate or lobate, white to ochraceous or pale grey, 0.4-0.7 mm diam. Peridium membranous, often yellowish or ochraceous brown beneath the lime, rather sparsely clothed with yellowish or white lime crystals. Stalk slender, cylindrical, striate, pale yellow-brown to orange, translucent except at the base which is usually darker. Hypothallus prominent, discoid. Columella stalked, prominent, subglobose to discoid, dull yellow to orange-brown, rough or spiny above, capillitium arising from spines when these are present. Capillitium scanty, pallid or smoky, reticulate. Spore-mass black. Spores violaceous brown, minutely warted to nearly smooth, 8-10(-12) µm diam. Plasmodium unknown.
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- Moreno,G., Illana, C., Lizárraga, M. 2001: SEM studies of the myxomycetes from the peninsula of Baja Californica (Mexico), III. Additions. Annales botanici Fennici 38: 225-247.
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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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