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Plasmodium usually pink. Sporocarps stalked or sessile, or plasmodiocarpous. Hypothallus discoid. Stalk stout, calcareous, usually ± fluted, white or ochraceous to orange or pinkish. Sporotheca appearing globose or depressed, deeply umbilicate below, 0.3-1 mm diam. Peridium transparent, usually covered with a thick, often reticulate, crust of white stellate lime crystals. Columella white or pale, discoid or hemispheric, consisting of a thickened, umbilicate sporotheca base, with an expanded, subglobose or flattened tip. Capillitium variable, the threads slender or coarse, ± simple or branching profusely, colourless or pallid, less commonly dark, often bearing conspicuous thickenings. Spore-mass black. Spores 8-11 µm diam., dark violaceous brown, minutely warted or spinulose or cluster-warted.
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- Clark,J. 2003: Plasmodial incompatibility in the myxomycete Didymium squamulosum. Mycologia 95(1): 24-26.
- Clark,J., Stephenson, S. L. 2003: Biosystematics of the myxomycetes Didymium squamulosum, Physarum compressum, and Physarum melleum: Additional isolates. Mycotaxon 85: 85-89.
- ElHage,N., Little, C., Clark, J., Stephenson, S. L. 2000: Biosystematics of the Didymium squamulosum complex. Mycologia 92: 54-64.
- Eliasson,U. 1971: A collection of myxomycetes from the Galapagos Islands. Svensk botanisk tidskrift 65: 105-111.
- Gustafson,R.A., Thurston, E. L. 1974: Calcium deposition in the Myxomycete Didymium squamulosum. Mycologia 66: 397-412.
- Maus,U., Hochgesand, E., Gottsberger, G. 1992: Berlin, Ber. Botanikertagung 1992 (Deutsche Bot. Ges.).
- Nannenga-Bremekamp,N.E., Mukerji, K. G., Pasricha, R. 1984: Notes on Indian Myxomycetes. Proceedings.Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.Ser.C, Biological and medical sciences 87(4): 471-482.
- Yamamoto,Y., Hagiwara, H., Sultana, K. 1993: Tokyo, National Science Museum. 41 p.
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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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