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Fuligo muscorum Alb, et Schwein
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Fuligo muscorum
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Fuligo muscorum

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Fuligo muscorum
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Fuligo muscorum
Fuligo muscorum
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Fuligo muscorum
Overview
Plasmodium yellow or yellow-green. Aethalia pulvinate, irregular, up to c. 1-5 cm wide, seated on a pallid or dull orange hypothallus. Cortex very thin, dingy white, grey, ochraceous or greenish, bearing scattered deposits of lime. Internal walls poorly developed, forming a pseudocapillitium. Capillitium of pale, ochraceous or dull orange, fusiform or branching lime nodes, connected by rather short, hyaline tubules, often sparse, elastic when abundant. Spores yellow-brown, irregularly and rather sparsely warted, (10-)11-13 µm diam.

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

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