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Didymium verrucosporum A. L. Welden
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Didymium verrucosporum
© The Eumycetozoan Project, 2006 · 0
Didymium verrucosporum

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Overview
Sporothecae globose or oblate, umbilicate below, nodding, white, (0.2-)0.3-0.4(-0.6) mm diam. Peridium membranous, colourless, covered with scattered white stellate lime crystals. Stalk limeless, dark brown at the base, tapered upwards and somewhat paler toward apex, translucent orange-brown by TL. Hypothallus membranous, dark brown, inconspicuous. Capillitium yellow-brown, branched, but with few anastomoses and bearing dark swellings, the tips pale. Columella globose, white, about half the height of the sporotheca. Spore-mass dark purple. Spores violaceous brown, coarsely and distinctly warted, the warts often in prominent groups and sometimes forming ridges, 8-9 µm diam. Plasmodium unknown.

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References
  • Weldon,A.L. 1954: Some Myxomycetes from Panama and Costa Rica. Mycologia 46: 93-99.

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

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