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Sporocarps sub-stipitate or sessile, obconical or subcylindrical, often densely crowded and then angular from mutual pressure, firmly united into pseudoaethalia composed of usually 200 or more sporocarps, each 0.4-0.9 mm in height and 0.4-0.5 mm diam., dark purplish red. Hypothallus confluent, reddish orange. Peridium opaque, firm, shining, with metallic reflections. Dehiscence by a preformed flattened pulvinate lid, sunken within a raised marginal rim. Capillitium of very long free elaters, which are often recurved with the two halves coiled about each other, 5-6 µm diam., the tips bluntly shortened and usually terminating in a short spine, ornamented with 3-4 spiral bands bearing conspicuous spines 2-4 long, deep orange-red in the mass. Spore-mass orange-red. Spores reddish ochraceous, nearly smooth or with a few minute spines, 9.5-11 µm diam. Plasmodium probably red or reddish.
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- Ing,B. 1964: Myxomycetes from Nigeria. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 47: 49-55.
- Lizárraga,M., Moreno, G., Illana, C. 1998: First records of myxomycetes from the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. Micologia e Vegetazione Mediterranea 13(2): 167-176.
- Moreno,G., Lizárraga, M., Illana, C. 1997: Metatricha horrida Ing (Myxomycetes), a African species in the Baja California peninsula (Mexico). Mycotaxon 64: 385-392.
- Perez-Silva,E., Herrera, T., Esqueda, M., Illana, C., Moreno, G. 2001: Myxomycetes of Sonora, Mexico. I. Mycotaxon 77: 181-192.
- Rammeloo,J. 1984: Meise, Nat. Plantentuin van Belgie. 54 p.
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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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