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Forming flat, dark grey or greyish-white plasmodiocarps, 0.1-0.15 mm thick, 2-8(-40) mm long, sometimes perforated. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Peridium membranous, covered to a varied extent with white, stellate, or sometimes less regular, crystals. Columella absent. Capillitium of slender, yellow-brown threads attached to subglobose vesicles, 30-50 µm diam., filled with yellow granular material. Spore-mass brown. Spores pale violet-brown, 8-11 µm diam., verruculose. Plasmodium yellow.
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- Hernandez-Cuevas,L., Estrada-Torres, A. 1997: Mexican Didymiaceae (Myxomycetes, order Physarales): three new records and comments on Mucilago crustacea. Mycotaxon 62: 319-335.
- Martin,G.W. 1947: Taxonomic notes on Myxomycetes. II. Mycologia 39: 453-462.
- Moreno,G., Illana, C., Heykoop, M. 1991: Contribution to the study of the Myxomycetes in Spain IV.. Mycotaxon 41: 113-125.
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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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