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Sporocarps sessile, gregarious. Sporothecae subglobose or pulvinate, 0.5-0.8 mm diam., reddish-brown or scarlet, occasionally olive-brown without red tints. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Peridium thin, wrinkled, thickly encrusted with lime, often as scales. Capillitium dense, with large, angular, branched orange to rust-red nodes mixed with numerous small nodes, often with a reddish centre. Spore-mass charcoal grey. Spores greyish-brown, 9-12 µm diam., minutely spinulose. Plasmodium orange-red or scarlet.
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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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