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Sporocarps scattered or solitary, 0.5-0.6 mm tall. Stalk slender, somewhat subulate, cylindrical, hollow, translucent, sometimes yellow at the base, brown above. Sporotheca globose, brown, 0.08-0.15 mm diam. Peridium evanescent. Columella reaching to the centre of the sporotheca. Capillitium lax, brown, arising from the tip of the columella, consisting of 3-4 slender, brown branches which fork dichotomously several times with no anastomoses. Spore-mass brown. Spores violet grey, minutely verrucose, bearing scattered, prominent clusters of warts, 6.5-7 µm diam.
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- Alexopoulos,C.J. 1967: Taxonomic studies in the Myxomycetes I. The genus Macbrideola. Mycologia 59: 103-116.
- Chiang,Y.C., Liu, C.-H. 1991: Corticolous Myxomycetes of Taiwan: on the bark of Pinus trees from central and nothern Taiwan. Taiwania 36(3): 248-264.
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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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