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Plasmodium pale yellow at maturity. Hypothallus inconspicuous or absent. Sporocarpous or plasmodiocarpous, gregarious to scattered, sessile. Sporotheca (0.25-)0.3-0.4(-0.55) mm wide, up to 1.5 cm long, ochraceous yellow, reddish brown, chestnut-brown or black. Peridium double, the outer layer cartilaginous and with included matter, the inner pale yellow, membranous, either smooth or faintly roughened within. Dehiscence irregular. Capillitium forming a lax reticulum of pale yellow threads, 2-3 µm diam., with scattered delicate or stout and often curved spines up to 6 µm long or densely covered with spines less than 2 µm long, rarely almost smooth, sometimes with a few rounded free ends and intercalary or axillary swellings. Spore-mass bright yellow. Spores pale yellow, varying from faintly roughened to distinctly warted or minutely spinulose, globose or subglobose, (8-)9-11(-12) µm diam.
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- Lizárraga,M., Illana, C., Moreno, G. 1999: SEM studies of the Myxomycetes from the Peninsula of Baja California (Mexico), II. Hemitrichia to Trichia. Annales botanici Fennici 36: 187-210.
- Marx,H. 1987: Perichaena chrysosperma in Berlin gefunden. Boletus 11(1)
- 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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