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Sporocarps 7-9 mm tall, in rather dense clusters, sometimes forming a pseudoaethalium. Sporothecae slender, cylindric, ± recumbent, deep fuscous, polished, 25-33% of the total height. Stalk black. Columella dark, marked by obscure spirals, not attaining the apex. Capillitium dark, with coppery or bronze iridescence, of stout branches, often with flat membranous expansions in the axils, the surface net irregular, with many large meshes and free ends. Spore-mass nearly black. Spores pale sooty brown, firmly united in clusters of 4-12 or more, often irregular in shape, the exposed surface distinctly warted, the remainder smooth, occasionally free, and then globose and more uniformly warted, 8-10 µm diam. Plasmodium white.
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- Agnihothrudu,V. 1965: Notes on Fungi from North-East India. XIX. Two rare myxomycetes from Assam. Journal of the Indian Botanical Society 44: 293-296.
- Thind,K.S., Khara, H. S., Soni, J. S. 1971: The Myxomycetes of India-XXIV. Proceedings.Indian Academy of Sciences.Plant sciences 41(1): 47-58.
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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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