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Sporocarps sessile, scattered, rarely in groups, pulvinate on a constricted base, 0.5-0.8 mm diam., grey-purple, iridescent. Hypothallus dark. Peridium membranous, wrinkled, the base bearing 2-15 µm diam. crystalline scales. Dehiscence by vertical splitting. Columella convex, dark. Capillitium a network of wavy, black threads, radiating from the columella, the tips and bases pale, the bases often expanded and containing granular matter which sometimes is calcareous, the threads nodulose. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores violet grey, 10-13 µm diam., verrucose. Plasmodium grey.
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- Hjortstam,K., Johannesen, E. 1980: Annotated list of the alpine wood fungus flora in Norway. Aphyllophorales and Myxomycetes in Dovrefjell National Park. Götebergs Svampklubbs Ärsskr. 1980: 1-45.
- Härkönen,M. 1981: Ten Myxomycete species new to Finland. Karstenia 21: 53-56.
- Jahn,E. 1918: Myxomycetenstudien. 9. Bemerkungen über einige seltene oder neue Arten. Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 36: 660-669.
- Lakhanpal,T.N., Mukerji, K. G. 1977: Taxonomic studies on Indian Myxomycetes VIII. Some new records of Stemonitales. Indian Phytopathology 30(1): 28-31.
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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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