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Plasmodium greyish white. Sporocarpous or occasionally plasmodiocarpous, scattered or gregarious, stalked or sometimes sessile, up to 1.5 mm tall. Stalk, when present, short, stout, sulcate, dark brown or frosted with lime. Sporotheca white or grey, fan-shaped, compressed-globose, compressed-reniform, varying to lobate, 0.8-1.5 mm in greatest diam. Peridium single, thin, squamulose. Dehiscence by an apical cleft or irregular. Capillitium rather loose, the nodes white, variable in size and shape. Spores purplish brown, warted, the warts sometimes irregularly distributed, 10-12.5 µm diam.
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- Clark,J., Stephenson, S. L. 2003: Biosystematics of the myxomycetes Didymium squamulosum, Physarum compressum, and Physarum melleum: Additional isolates. Mycotaxon 85: 85-89.
- Indira,P.U., Kalyanasundaram, R. 1963: Preliminary investigations in culture of some Myxomycetes. Berichte der Schweizerischen Botanischen Gesellschaft 73: 381-388.
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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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