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Sporocarps short-stalked, gregarious, up to 0.8 mm in total height. Sporothecae depressed-globose, umbilicate below, 0.4-0.6 mm diam., white. Hypothallus dark, discoid. Stalk slender, black or dark brown, usually not exceeding 50% of the total height. Peridium membranous, delicate, frosted with stellate crystals. Columella globose or depressed-globose, dark brown. Capillitium delicate, colourless, branched but with few anastomoses. Spore-mass black. Spores dark violet brown, 8-10 µm diam., cluster-warted. Plasmodium dark purplish-grey.
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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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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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