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Plasmodium probably pink or red. Aethalia scattered or gregarious, subglobose, (0.5-)2-4(-5) mm diam., usually appearing dark, almost black. Cortex yellow-brown, thickly covered with dark, purplish-brown or black scales, these pulvinate at first with homogeneous contents, tending to become divided internally into numerous chambers and finally appearing flat and tessellate. Dehiscence by an apical tear, soon becoming irregular. Pseudocapillitium composed of colourless or yellow branching tubules arising from the middle cortex layer, often smooth at the base, roughened or transversely wrinkled elsewhere, 2-10 µm diam. Spore-mass ochraceous. Spores nearly colourless, marked by faint, irregular warts and lines, sometimes appearing nearly smooth, (4-)4.5-5.5(-6) µm diam.
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- Eliasson,U., Sunhede, S. 1980: External structure of peridium, pseudocapillitium and spores in the myxomycete genus Lycogala Adans.. Botaniska notiser 133: 351-361.
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- Martin,G.W. 1967: Lycogala exiguum. Mycologia 59: 155-160.
- Parmasto,E. 1987: The genus Lycogala in Estonia. [In Estonian]. Eesti loodus 6: 368-369.
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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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