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Sporocarps gregarious, stipitate, total height 2-4 mm. Sporotheca flat discoid to saucer-shaped, pure white to greyish white, 1.2-1.5 mm diam. Peridium membranous, thinly covered with lime globules. Dehiscence by breaking irregularly into small patches. Stalk slender, striate, reddish brown, 1.5-2.5 mm long. Hypothallus small, membranous, brownish. Capillitium usually dense, connecting the lower and upper peridium, consisting of branching hyaline tubules and small sparse, mostly fusiform lime nodes. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores pale violet brown, spinulose and with clusters of more prominent spines, 8-10 µm diam.
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- Buchet,S. 1939: Nouvelle récolte en France de Trichamphora pezizoidea Jungh.. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société Mycologique de France 55: 114-117.
- Farr,M.L. 1964: Physarum pezizoideum and P. javanicum. Brittonia 16: 339-341.
- Ukkola,T., Härkönen, M. 1996: Revision of Physarum pezizoideum var. pezizoideum and var. microsporum (Myxomycetes). Karstenia 36: 41-46.
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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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