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Sporocarps sessile on a constricted base or less commonly short-stalked, rarely subplasmodiocarpous, 0.5-2.2 mm diam., orange-brown to dull brown, sometimes rosaceous. Peridium thin, transparent, iridescent, bearing on its inner surface the persistent ends of the capillitial threads. Capillitium consisting of numerous yellow-brown, ± spirally banded threads which appear solid, originating at the base and becoming subdivided outwards, the branches often spirally interwoven, sometimes anastomosed to form a network at the bases and tips, many of the extremities attached to the upper wall, the spirals occasionally lacking and capillitium often irregular. Spore-mass orange-brown to brown. Spores yellow, spinose, 10-13(-15) µm diam. Plasmodium white.
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- Härkönen,M. 1981: Ten Myxomycete species new to Finland. Karstenia 21: 53-56.
- Rammeloo,J. 1983: Meise, Nationale Plantentuin van Belgie. 34 p.
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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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