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Protoplasmodium hyaline, then brown. Sporocarpous to subplasmodiocarpous, scattered, sessile, round-pulvinate to elongate, 0.1-0.9(-1.3) mm long, 0.1-0.4 mm wide, at first chestnut or pale brown, becoming blackish brown with age. Peridium smooth or wrinkled, nearly colourless or pale brown, often overlaid by a ± continuous layer of dark granular matter. Dehiscence by plates or stellate lobes whose margins are marked with a row of pale warts c. 1 µm diam. Spore-mass pallid to brown. Spores pale olivaceous-yellow, 9-11 µm diam., thick-walled and with a conspicuous pale area.
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- Cejp,K. 1963: A peculiar myxomycete on mouldy herbarium paper. Ceská mykologie 17: 47-48.
- Kowalski,D.T. 1973: New records of Myxomycetes from California. V. Madrono 22: 97-100.
- Sekhon,S.S. 1980: The Myxomycetes of Chandigarh. III. Genus Licea. Indian Jour.Mycol.and Plant Pathol. 10(1): 30-36.
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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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