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Sporocarps stipitate, umber brown, obovate to obconical, flattened above, 0.5-1.5 mm broad, 0.8-1.5 mm tall. Peridium sharply delimited as a basal cup and an operculum, the cup membranous, ± furrowed, shining, the operculum flattened, dull. Stalk short, usually 25-33% of the total height. Capillitium abundant, brownish ochraceous, yellow by TL, the filaments uniformly 7-8 µm diam., bearing 4-5 prominent spirals with few or no spines, the tips long-tapered, the filaments often bent in the middle with the two parts spirally twisted about each other. Spore-mass yellow. Spores pale yellow, globose and 11-12 µm diam. or ovoid, verrucose. Plasmodium unknown.
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- Frederick,L., Roth, I. L., Simons, L. 1983: SEM studies on operculum structure in the Myxomycete Trichia crateriformis. Mycologia 75: 46-52.
- Martin,G.W. 1963: A new name in Trichia. Mycologia 55
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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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