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Sporocarps gregarious, stalked, total height 1-1.5 mm. Sporotheca ovate or subcylindric, iridescent bronze, blue or violet. Stalk cylindric or with the middle part slightly swollen, brownish black and charged with oily deposits, 0.1-1 mm long, 0.2-0.3 mm diam. Columella about half the height of the sporotheca. Capillitium arising from the columella, composed of dark, purplish brown, branched and anastomosed threads, and bearing nodules of pale orange or red wax in the axils, colourless at the tips. Spore-mass dark violet-brown. Spores clear violet, warted, 7-10 µm diam. Plasmodium unknown.
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- Stephenson,S.L., Schnittler, M., Mitchell, D. W., Novozhilov, Y. K. 2001: Myxomycetes of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mycotaxon 78: 1-15.
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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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