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Assimilative stage a minute white phaneroplasmodium. Sporocarps scattered, stipitate, 0.1-0.75 mm tall. Stalk slender, subulate, stuffed with granular matter, brown, darker at the apex. Sporotheca globose, 75-150 µm diam. Columella absent. Peridium silvery with metallic reflections. Capillitium usually well formed, sometimes scanty, arising from the tip of the stalk, consisting of hyaline to yellowish flattened tubules, branched and anastomosed to form a network, the joints usually expanded. Spore-mass black. Spores globose to oval, purplish brown, minutely verrucose, (10-)11-12(-13) µm diam.
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- Blackwell,M. 1974: A study of sporophore development in the myxomycete Protophysarum phloiogenum. Archiv für Mikrobiologie 99: 331-344.
- Blackwell,M., Alexopoulos, C. J. 1975: Taxonomic studies in the Myxomycetes IV. Protophysarum phloiogenum, a new genus and species of Physaraceae. Mycologia 67: 32-37.
- Blackwell,M., Arnott, M. J., Alexopoulos, C. J. 1972: Food....in a new myxomycete Protophysarum phloiogenum new species. Tek.Rep.Biol.Med. 30: 379
- Castillo,A., Illana, C., Moreno, G. 1998: Protophysarum phloiogenum and a new family in the Physarales. Mycological Research 102(7): 838-842.
- Novozhilov,Y.K., Golubeva, O. G. 1986: Epiphytic myxomycetes from the Mongolian Altai and the Gobi desert. [In Russian]. Mikologija i fitopatologija 20(5): 368-374.
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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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