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Sporocarps stalked, gregarious, sometimes crowded, erect or nodding. Sporothecae globose or depressed, 0.4-0.6 mm diam., usually umbilicate below, grey, brownish grey, or bronze, depending upon the amount of lime present. Peridium thin, metallic, with limy scales on the surface. Dehiscence floriform into 6-12 segments. Stalk calcareous, white or yellowish, often shading to fuscous or black below, rather long, tapered upwards. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Capillitium delicate, white or colourless, the nodes usually forming a central pseudocolumella, the remaining nodes few, small, oval or sub-fusiform, many junctions of the net limeless. Spore-mass brown. Spores pale violet-brown, minutely punctate, 8-10 µm diam. Plasmodium pale grey.
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- Lado,C., Teyssiere, M. 1998: Myxomycetes from Equatorial Guinea. Nova Hedwigia 67(3-4): 421-441.
- Martin,G.W. 1947: Taxonomic notes on Myxomycetes. II. Mycologia 39: 453-462.
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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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