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Plasmodium translucent white. Aethalia often in small groups, slightly oblate, low pulvinate or irregular, 0.5-6.0 cm across and up to 0.5 cm thick, pale grey or white, cortex brittle and crumbling irregularly, smooth or rough, rarely absent. Hypothallus membranous, often consisting of several perforated layers, encrusted with white lime, often protruding outside the aethalium. Peridia of the tubular plasmodiocarps that form the aethalium, fragmented and impregnated with white lime; component tubules, as far as recognisable, confluent (without spaces between). Capillitium tubules colourless, connected at each end to peridium, branched or unbranched and sometimes forming a net, with a variable number of large or small fusiform or irregular, lime nodes containing white lime, the nodes sometimes merged into a pseudocolumella in the middle of the tubes. Spore-mass black. Spores rather dark purple-brown, mostly oval, (10-)13-14(-15) µm diam., verruculose (rarely spinulose), these often united by narrow ridges into a broken reticulum.
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- Collins,O.R.Some effects of temperature and pH on the life cycle of Fuligo cinerea (Schw.) Morgan in laboratory culture. Dissertation. 1959,
- Keller,H.W., Schoknecht, J. D. 1989: Fuligo megaspora, a myxomycete with unique spore ornamentation. Mycologia 81: 454-458.
- Lizárraga,M., Moreno, G., Illana, C. 1997: The Myxomycetes from Baja Californica (Mexico). I.. Mycotaxon 63: 287-300.
- Moreno,G., Heykoop, M., Illana, C. 1987: Interesting Myxomycetes found in Alcala de Henares (Madrid). Bol.Soc.Micol.Madrid 11: 213-216.
- Yang,B.-Y. 1972: Fuligo cinerea reported from Taiwan: some observations on its plasmodia, sclerotica, spore germination and fructification. Taiwania 17(1): 107-115.
- Zabka,G.G., Lazo, W. R. 1962: Reziprocal transfer of materials between algal cells and myxomycete plasmodia in intimate association. American journal of botany 49(2): 146-148.
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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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