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Sporocarps stalked, 2-4 mm total height. Sporothecae obconic to turbinate with a depressed or umbilicate apex, 0.4-1 mm diam., white. Hypothallus small, discoid, white. Stalk long, slender, narrowing above, greyish-white, darker below. Peridium thin, unevenly covered with calcareous globules, the lower part remaining as an irregular cup. Capillitium dense, of fusiform hyaline tubules connecting small, white, elongated or triangular nodes. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores purple-brown, 9-10 µm diam., nearly smooth. Plasmodium unknown.
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- Farr,M.L. 1964: Physarum pezizoideum and P. javanicum. Brittonia 16: 339-341.
- Härkönen,M., Saarimäki, T. 1991: Tanzanian Myxomycetes: first survey. Karstenia 31: 31-54.
- Lado,C., Teyssiere, M. 1998: Myxomycetes from Equatorial Guinea. Nova Hedwigia 67(3-4): 421-441.
- Lakhanpal,T.N., Mukerji, K. G. 1978: Taxonomic studies on indian Myxomycetes X. Some new records of Physaraceae. Journal of the Indian Botanical Society 57: 86-92.
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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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