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Plasmodiocarpous, simple or branched, rarely exceeding 2 cm in length, sessile, varying to pulvinate or sub-sporocarpous, often anastomosed, white to pinkish grey or drab. Hypothallus usually conspicuous and continuous. Peridium usually double, membranous to subcartilaginous, dark grey or dull pink, sometimes iridescent, coated with lime scales, these sometimes united to form an outer wall that is distant from the peridium. Columella usually present, pulvinate, flattened and inconspicuous. Capillitium abundant, coarse, pale yellow to yellow-brown, branched and anastomosed to form an intricate net with expanded nodes, these frequently forming cysts containing masses of crystalline lime. Spore-mass dark purple-brown. Spores uniformly violet-brown, densely spinulose, (12-)15-18(-20) µm diam.
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- Pando,F., Lado, C. 1990: A survey of the corticolous Myxomycetes in Peninsular Spain and Balearic Islands. Nova Hedwigia 50(1-2): 127-137.
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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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