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Plasmodium unknown. Aethalia pulvinate, 1.5-7 cm diam. Cortex very thick, spongy, calcareous, white or yellowish below. Spore-mass grey from the mixture of dark spores and an abundant network of limy, tubular walls. Capillitium scanty, of delicate, colourless, anastomosed threads bearing large, white, branching nodules towards the centre. Spores spherical, dark purplish brown, rough-tuberculate to subreticulate, (14-)15-20(-22) µm diam. Rare.
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- Buchet,S. 1936: Fuligo megaspora Sturgis, myxomycete noveau pour la France. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société Mycologique de France 52: 337-339.
- Keller,H.W., Schoknecht, J. D. 1989: Fuligo megaspora, a myxomycete with unique spore ornamentation. Mycologia 81: 454-458.
- Lado,C., Rodriguez-Palma, M., Estrada-Torres, A. 1999: Myxomycetes from a seasonal tropical forest on the pacific coast of Mexico. Mycotaxon 71: 307-321.
- Yamamoto,Y., Takahashi, K. 1995: Six myxomycetes new or rare to Japan. Bull.Okayama Pref.Nature Cons.Center 3: 33-40.
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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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