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Sporocarps stalked, up to 1.8 mm total height. Sporothecae globose, white, 0.3-0.5 mm diam. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Stalk slender, yellowish-white, wrinkled. Peridium thin, covered with white lime globules, the base persisting as a collar. Columella usually lacking, sometimes forming a small projection from the top of the stalk. Capillitium dense, with small white, rounded lime nodes which are aggregated to form a ball in the centre of the sporotheca but the nodes not fused. Spore-mass black. Spores lilac, 6.5-7.5 µm diam., spinulose. Plasmodium grey.
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- Rex,G.A. 1891: New American Myxomycetes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia 43: 389-398.
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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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