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Physarum pulcherripes Peck
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Sporocarps stipitate, total height usually 1-2 mm. Sporothecae globose, (0.3-)0.4-0.6(-0.7) mm diam., orange-brown to tawny or whitish, calcareous above, dark iridescent beneath, the walls thin, deciduous. Stalk slender, erect, calcareous, up to 1.5 mm long, deep red, orange or pale at the apex, sometimes shading to black below. Hypothallus well-developed. Columella small, conical, rarely subglobose. Capillitium dense, slightly elastic, the meshes small, the nodes reddish or yellow, small, rounded. Spore-mass dark violaceous gray. Spores pale lilaceous brown, verruculose, with clusters of darker warts, 8-10 µm diam. Plasmodium yellow.

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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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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
email: jshadwi@uark.edu   phone: USA-479-575-7393.

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Solanaceae  Nicotiana tabacum @ BPI (1)
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