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Primarily plasmodiocarpous, varying to sporocarpous, sessile, 0.2-0.4 mm diam., the plasmodiocarps up to 4 mm long, often sinuous but rarely branched. Peridium double, the outer layer white, crustose, of firmly compacted lime, sometimes scantily developed, the inner layer membranous, translucent, not firmly attached to outer layer. Capillitium sparse to abundant, the nodes white, angular and irregular, sometimes massed to form a central pseudocolumella. Spore-mass black. Spores yellow-brown, sparsely covered with coarse black warts, 1.5-2 µm tall, connected by stout membranes, giving them a strongly, somewhat irregularly, reticulate appearance, with 11-20 meshes to the hemisphere, the spore-body 8-10 µm diam., over-all diam. 11-14 µm. Plasmodium white.
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- Martin,G.W. 1962: Taxonomic Notes on Myxomycetes. IV. Brittonia 14: 180-185.
- Sekhon,S.S., Thind, K. S. 1980: The Myxomycetes of India. XXV. Indian Jour.Mycol.and Plant Pathol. 10(1): 37-42.
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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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