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Sporocarps clustered or sometimes scattered, typically stipitate, total height c. 2 mm. Sporotheca hemispherical to subglobose, umbilicate below, (0.5-)0.8-1.5(-2) mm diam. Stalk up to 2 mm long, cylindrical, stout, usually furrowed, spongy, orange, orange-brown to brownish, containing lime scales. Peridium thickly membranous to subcartilaginous, tough, dull or occasionally slightly iridescent, opaque, medium to dark brown, covered with sparsely distributed lime scales, the lime scales white or grey, usually 70-150 µm diam., scattered. Hypothallus usually extensive, thick, spongy, connecting several sporocarps, opaque, orange, concolorous with the stipe. Columella c. 50% of the sporotheca, formed from the apex of the stipe and usually concolorous with it, ± hemispherical, containing yellow or orange lime scales. Capillitium abundant, attached to the columella and peridium, the threads straight or flexuose, sparsely branched, of uniform thickness, dark brown, hyaline at their extremities, often laterally connected by fine, hyaline bands. Spore-mass dark purple-brown. Spores violet-brown, minutely spinulose, 10-12 µm diam. Plasmodium orange-yellow.
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- Flatau,L., Massner, W., Schirmer, P. 1986: Myxomyceten aus Nordhessen IV. Ein neuer Myxomycet aus der Umgebung von Kassel. Zeitschrift für Mykologie 53(1): 145-149.
- Ing,B. 1983: A ravine association of Myxomycetes. Journal of biogeography 10: 299-306.
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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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