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Sporocarps gregarious, 1-1.5 mm tall. Stalk 0.5-1 mm long, black or dark brown, furrowed. Sporotheca erect or nodding, depressed-globose, slightly umbilicate below, 0.6-0.8 mm diam. Peridium iridescent blue, nearly limeless or covered with pale yellow calcareous scales, the lower portion remaining as a cup. Capillitium dense, very delicate, radiating from the black, slightly intrusive summit of the stalk and the base of the peridium, lime-nodes sparse, pale yellow, fusiform, occasionally branched. Spores bright violet-brown, distinctly warted, (9-)10-11(-12) µm diam.
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- Martin,G.W. 1942: Taxonomic Notes on Myxomycetes. [I]. Mycologia 34: 696-704.
- Marx,H., Schubert, M. 1994: Beobachtungen zu Physarum bethelii (Myxomycetes). Zeitschrift für Mykologie 6017(2): 339-348.
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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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