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Plasmodium white. Sporocarpous or plasmodiocarpous and then plasmodiocarps are usually short, simple or branched, often crowded, sessile. Sporotheca globose, (0.3-)0.5-0.8(-1) mm diam., greyish white, rugulose. Peridium single, membranous, usually densely covered with coarse, closely-set calcareous globules, rarely nearly limeless. Capillitium of large, angular, branching, lime nodes connected by short, hyaline tubules, the nodes sometimes massed in the centre to form a pseudocolumella. Spore-mass black. Spores dark purplish brown, warted, (9-)10-12 µm diam.
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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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