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Sporocarps stalked, either in groups or scattered, 1-2.5 mm total height. Sporothecae black, shining with silvery reflections, rarely iridescent, subglobose, 0.6-1.2 mm diam. Hypothallus black, membranous. Stalk black, rarely exceeding 50% of the total height. Columella cylindrical or clavate, reaching to the centre of the sporotheca. Capillitium dark, usually black throughout, the tips expanded into funnel-shaped expansions at the junction with the peridium, these expansions often being yellowish-brown, small peridial fragments often adhere to these funnels. Spore-mass black. Spores purplish-brown, 12-15 µm diam., coarsely spinose-reticulate, the meshes not always distinct. Plasmodium black.
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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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