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Forming extensive, dark grey, effused plasmodiocarps, usually 2 cm diam., but up to 20 cm long and 10 cm wide, the myxocarps made up of sinuous, elongate plasmodiocarps fused into a sheet with gaps and perforations. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Peridium membranous, grey, iridescent, covered with dark grey (or yellow?) crystals. Columella absent. Capillitium a dark network of threads with nodular thickenings, the meshes small, scarcely larger than the spores. Spore-mass black. Spores violet-brown, 10-11 µm diam., with large, distantly placed warts or spines. Plasmodium unknown.
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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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