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Plasmodium yellow, yellowish green or green. Sporocarps gregarious, 1-2 mm tall. Stalk cylindrical, usually long, slender, reddish brown, translucent, often darker at base, limeless, fluted, twisted, tapered upward from a small, radiating hypothallus. Sporotheca nodding, spherical or lenticular, 0.3-0.6 mm diam., dusky yellow or sooty. Peridium delicate, often nearly limeless, iridescent, sometimes limy, early deciduous in patches except at the persistent base. Columella absent. Capillitium dense, persistent, the threads colourless, the nodes yellow, varying from small and angular to elongate, often fusiform, sometimes branching, many of the junctions limeless. Spore-mass sooty brown. Spores bright violaceous brown, minutely punctate, 8-10 µm diam.
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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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