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Primarily plasmodiocarpous, 0.3-0.4 mm wide, usually accompanied by sessile, subglobose, sporocarps, pinkish brown or citrine-drab to bronze, glossy. Peridium double, the outer layer cartilaginous, brittle, wrinkled, shining, sometimes bearing lime deposits, usually separating at dehiscence from the shining, iridescent, membranous inner layer. Capillitium dense, the nodes small, brown, sometimes aggregated to form a pseudocolumella. Spore-mass brown. Spores rather pale yellow-brown, very minutely punctate, sometimes bearing clusters of larger and darker warts, 7-9 µm diam. Plasmodium black.
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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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