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Plasmodium yellow or greenish yellow. Sporocarps stalked, gregarious, up to 1.5 mm tall. Stalk subulate, varying from pale yellow or reddish and darker below to nearly black, usually relatively long. Sporotheca nodding, lenticular or subglobose, umbilicate below, yellow to orange, 0.3-0.6 mm diam. Peridium delicate, encrusted with calcareous flakes, splitting into irregular fragments above and floriform lobes below. Capillitium dense, the nodes mainly fusiform, orange or yellow, connected by hyaline thrends. Spore-mass fuscous or violaceous black. Spores bright violet, nearly smooth, 7-9 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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