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Sporocarps sessile, white or pale ochraceous, subglobose, usually on a constricted base, clustered, usually densely, on a prominent white limy hypothallus, c. 1 mm diam., often polygonal from mutual pressure. Peridium double, the outer layer calcareous, thick, fragile, usually remote from the delicate, translucent, membranous inner layer. Capillitium abundant, the nodes large, white, angular, sometimes massed to form a central pseudocolumella. Spore-mass black. Spores purplish brown, densely spinulose (8-)10-12 µm diam. Plasmodium unknown.
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- Harling,G. 1952: Notes on Myxomycetes. I. Physarum diderma Rost. new to Sweden. Svensk botanisk tidskrift 46: 47-52.
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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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