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Sporocarps sessile, subglobose, 0.8-1 mm diam., shining lemon-yellow to golden-yellow. Hypothallus confluent, membranous. Peridium thin, membranous, shining, marked with irregular stripes. Capillitium of golden-yellow or lemon-yellow elaters, 4-6 µm diam., marked with 4-5 spiral bands, smooth, sometimes with longitudinal striae, with short, pointed ends. Spore-mass lemon-yellow. Spores very pale yellow, 13-15 µm diam., coarsely banded-reticulate with 3-5 meshes to the hemisphere, forming a border 1 µm high. Plasmodium white.
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- Farr,M.L. 1958: Taxonomic studies in the myxomycetes. I. The Trichia favoginea complex. Mycologia 50: 337-369.
- Rammeloo,J. 1974: Structure of the Epispore in the Trichiaceae (Trichales, Myxomycetes) as seen with the scanning microscope. Bulletin de la Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique 107: 353-359.
- Scherffel,A. 1892: Zur Kenntniss einiger Arten der Gattung Trichia. Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 10(4): 217-218.
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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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