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Sporocarps stalked, turbinate, solitary to gregarious, honey-coloured when mature, brownish-yellow when immature, 1-2 mm tall. Sporotheca vase-shaped with a domed operculum, 0.5-1 mm broad. Operculum smooth and shiny, either separating irregularly when the dehiscence-line is not well defined, or circumscissile along a preformed dehiscence line, the surface commonly imprinted with spore impressions. Stalk stout, up to 1.5 mm tall, dark brown, strongly ridged, expanding at the top into the sporotheca, flared at the base into the hypothallus. Hypothallus dark-brown, thin, shiny, fibrous-textured, confluent with the stalk bases of other sporocarps. Capillitium of abundant straight or twisted elaters, pale yellow, 4-5 µm diam., with 2-3 smooth to finely roughened spirals and long-tapered tips. Spores globose, pale yellow, 8-10(-12) µm diam., distinctly banded reticulate.
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- Frederick,L., Simons, L., Roth, I. L. 1984: Trichia fernbankensis sp. nov., a second species of Trichia with operculate sporangia. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 83(2)
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Acknowledgements | |
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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