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Sporocarps long-stalked, 1-2 mm total height. Sporothecae globose, 0.3-0.4 mm diam., metallic silvery blue or bronze, iridescent, occasionally nodding. Hypothallus discoid, black. Stalk long and slender, black. Columella cylindrical, blunt, reaching the centre of the sporotheca. Capillitium of rigid, straight, sparingly-branched brown threads, pale at the base. Spore-mass mass black. Spores violet-brown, 7-9 µm diam., evenly warted. Plasmodium white.
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- Indira,P.U. 1974: Laboratory cultivation of Lamproderma scintillans. Mycologia 66(5): 888-892.
- Moreno,G., Illana, C., Lizárraga, M. 2001: SEM studies of the myxomycetes from the peninsula of Baja Californica (Mexico), III. Additions. Annales botanici Fennici 38: 225-247.
- Zeller,L., Toth, S. 1977: Myxomycetes data from Hungary II.. Annales Universitatis Scientiarum Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae.Sectio biologica 18 bis 19: 137-154.
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Acknowledgements | |
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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