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Sporocarps scattered or in small groups, sessile or substipitate. Sporotheca ovoid to globose, 1.0-1.5 mm diam., dark brown to blue, dull or slightly iridescent. Stalk, when present, c. 1.0 mm long, shiny brownish-black. Peridium membranous, thin, usually persistent, splitting irregularly, mottled with numerous depressed, dark areas. Hypothallus confluent or discoid, thin, transparent reddish-brown. Columella black, usually attaining 66% of the sporotheca height, often branching at the apex. Capillitium forming a distinct, dense net with abundant free ends, dark brown throughout, hyaline only at the extreme tips, threads of ± uniformly 2-4 µm diam., usually not expanded in the axils, often covered with numerous c. 5-10 µm diam. nodules. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores dusky brown, 13-16 µm diam. including ornamentation of large irregularly distributed spines to 1.0 µm high. Nivicole.
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- Bozonnet,J.M., Meyer, M., Poulain, M. 1991: Espčces nivales de Myxomycetes. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle du Pays Montbéliard: 51-72.
- Kowalski,D.T. 1970: Concerning the validity of Lamproderma echinosporum. Madrono 20: 323-326.
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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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