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Sporocarps 1.5-2.5(-3) mm tall, tufted on a shining, silvery hypothallus. Stalk short, erect, jet black, 25-33% total height. Sporothecae short-cylindrical, black, 0.2-0.3 mm wide, erect or sometimes curved, with obtuse apices, Columella flexuous above, ending abruptly just below the obtuse sporotheca apex. Capillitium lax, composed of branching, tapered, flattened and anastomosed, violaceous brown threads, often expanded and paler at the joints, the meshes irregular, up to 130 µm diam., the ultimate branchlets slender and anastomosed with the surface net. Spore-mass black. Spores violaceous brown, profusely and prominently spiny-warted, 10.5-12.5 µm diam. including the slender warts which may be as much as 0.8 µm tall.
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- Farr,M.L. 1959: Stemonitis brasiliensis and Badhamia iowensis - a correction. Mycologia 51
- Martin,G.W., Thind, K. S., Sohi, H. S. 1957: The Myxomycetes of the Mussoorie Hills. IV. Mycologia 49: 128-133.
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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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