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Sporocarpous or usually plasmodiocarpous, pulvinate to depressed, broadly effused to branched, up to 2 cm long, pale grey. Peridium fragile, membranous, hyaline, either with a continuous lime layer or sparsely sprinkled with lime. Dehiscence by breaking around the base. Columella absent, the floor of the sporotheca slightly thickened, limeless, pale brown to purplish black. Capillitium scanty, consisting of ± straight, upright threads 1-4 µm diam., usually hyaline but sometimes pale to dark purplish brown with hyaline tips, simple to bifurcate, extending from the base to the upper peridium. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores dark violet-brown, uniformly echinulate with spines to 1 µm high, 12-15 µm diam.
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- Keller,H.W., Brooks, T. E. 1973: Corticolous Myxomycetes I: Two new species of Didymium. Mycologia 65: 286-294.
- Yamamoto,Y. 1986: The Myxomycetes of Shikoku V.. The Botanical magazine 8: 1-8.
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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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