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Didymium ochroideum G. Lister
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Didymium ochroideum
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Didymium ochroideum

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Forming sporocarps or short plasmodiocarps, sessile, pulvinate, 0.2-0.5 mm broad, pale brown or ochraceous. Hypothallus sparse, pale orange. Peridium membranous, thickly covered with pale yellow stellate crystals. Columella orange, convex but flattened, occupying most of the sporotheca floor. Capillitium a loose net of slender, yellow-brown threads. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores pale purple-grey, 6-7 µm diam., minutely roughened. Plasmodium white.

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  • Lister,G. 1931: New species of Mycetozoa from Japan. The Journal of botany, British and foreign 69: 297-298.

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The Eumycetozoan Project -- working to understand the ecology, sytematics and evolution of myxomycetes, dictostelids and protostelids -- the true slime molds.

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