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Forming white, laterally compressed, elongate plasmodiocarps. Peridium double, the outer layer smooth, calcareous, the inner layer membranous, pale purple, iridescent. Dehiscence by means of a preformed apical split. Capillitium consisting of dense white, angular nodes, connected by short hyaline tubules. Spore-mass black. Spores purple, 10-12 µm diam., conspicuously spinose, the spines sometimes united into ridges. Plasmodium unknown.
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- Liu,C.-H. 1993: Myxomycetes of Taiwan VII. Three new records of Physarum. Taiwania 38(3): 91-98.
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Acknowledgements | |
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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