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Sporocarps short-stalked, gregarious, up to 1 mm total height. Sporothecae subglobose or slightly flattened, deeply umbilicate below, 0.5-1 mm diam., white. Hypothallus dark, inconspicuous. Stalk dark brown or black, stout, short, rarely apparently absent when completely hidden by the deep umbilicus. Peridium firm, brown, frosted with crystals. Columella large, hemispherical brown, calcareous. Capillitium of wavy threads, pale or brown, little branched, some thin, some much thicker, often with dark nodular swellings. Spore-mass black. Spores purplish-brown, 10-14 µm diam., warted. Plasmodium colourless or grey. On leaf and twig litter, especially of conifers.
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- Harper,R.A. 1914: Cleavage in Didymium melanospermum (Pers.) Macbr.. American journal of botany 1(3): 127-144.
- 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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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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