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Grows and sporulates on soft oak bark agar (at pH 6-6.6) or lactose-yeast extract agar (at pH 6) with a mixture of Flavobacterium sp. and another unidentified bacterium (Malaya). Sporocarps 22.8-31.2 µm tall; stalks with inconspicuous discoid base and sharply tapered apex, 9.6-16.8 µm long; microsporangia 12-18.5 µm in diam. containing 4 small binucleate amoeboid cells or thin-walled spores. Spores round or somewhat tetrad-shaped, 7.2-11 (-12) µm in diam. Amoebae are uninucleate usually with a single contractile vacuole; they have lobose pseudopodia with filose subpseudopodia. Flagellates have not been observed. Prespore cells uninucleate; microcysts spherical to subspherical, 10.8-20.4 µm diam.
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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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