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Sporocarps gregarious in large groups, often broken up into small clusters within the group, stipitate, 2-6(-7.5) mm total height. Sporothecae erect, cylindrical, rather slender, somewhat obtuse, dusky drab, becoming pallid as the spores disappear. Stalk c. 33% of the total height, black, polished. Hypothallus thin, brown or iridescent. Columella ending abruptly at the apex or dispersed below. Capillitium dense, the tips fusing with the close-meshed surface net which tends to be fugacious above. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores pale lilaceous, minutely punctate, (6-)6.5-7.5(-8) µm diam. Plasmodium white or greenish yellow.
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- Ishigami,M. 1977: A light and electron microscopic study of the flagellate to amoeba conversation in the myxomycete Stemonitis pallida. Protoplasma 91(1): 31-54.
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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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