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Sporocarps in small clusters on a common hypothallus, 2-6(-8) mm tall. Stalk black, shining, 0.5-2 mm tall, 20-33% total height, the base keratinoid and hollow. Sporotheca cylindric or elongate-ovate, blunt or slightly acuminate above, violaceous-brown. Columella reaching the apex, giving rise to delicate capillitium, the ultimate branches united to form a small-meshed surface net which tends to fall away above. Spore-mass bright lilac-brown. Spores pale lilac-brown, marked by a wide-meshed reticulum of narrow bands connecting prominent warts and with 3-4 meshes across the hemisphere, 5-6.5(-8) µm diam.
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- Castillo,A., Moreno, G., Illana, C., Lago, J. 1997: A critical study of some Stemonitales. Mycological Research 101(11): 1329-1340.
- Mims,C.W. 1972: Centrioles and Golgi apparatus in postmeiotic spores of the myxomycete Stemonitis virginiensis. Mycologia 64: 452-456.
- Mims,C.W. 1973: A light and electron microscopic study of sporulation in the myxomycete Stemonitis viriginiensis. Protoplasma 77(1): 35-54.
- Mims,C.W., Rogers, M. A. 1973: An ultrastructural study of spore germination in the myxomycete Stemonitis virginiensis. Protoplasma 78: 243-254.
- Rex,G.A. 1891: New American Myxomycetes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia 43: 389-398.
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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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