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Sporocarps sessile. Sporotheca spherical to pulvinate-angular (0.5-)1.0-1.5 mm diam., black to very dark brown, with a reticulum of ridges. Peridium of two closely-connected layers, the inner membranous and shining, the outer gelatinous and dull, olive to yellow-brown by TL. Dehiscence into smooth angular plates with usually a single row of large dark tubercles along the margin and inclusions in the central part. Spore-mass dark olive-brown. Spores olive-yellow, 15-16(-20) µm diam., densely verruculose or spinulose, the wall thick with a thinner area.
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References |
- Gilert,E. 1997: Morphological and ultrastructure features in selected species of Licea (Myxomycetes). Nordic journal of botany 16(5): 515-547.
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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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