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Plasmodium drab brown. Sporocarps gregarious or scattered, stipitate and then 0.8-1.5 mm tall, or sessile, or short-plasmodiocarpous. Stalk usually short, fuscous to reddish brown, occasionally dusted with white lime. Sporotheca subglobose to depressed, greyish white, darker below, 0.4-0.8 mm diam. Peridium thin, membranous, iridescent, flecked with lime or sometimes rather strongly calcareous, convex or plane below. Dehiscence irregular. Capillitium reticulate, the nodes usually small and rounded, varying to large and angular or branched. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores yellow-brown, minutely roughened, 9-11 µm diam.
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- Chryazizi,T. 1902: Physarum leucophaeum ferox, eine hefefressende Amoebae. Bot.Centralbl. 89: 599
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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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