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Sporocarps sessile, closely gregarious or crowded on a dark, well-developed common hypothallus, purplish brown to dark ochraceous, often paler below, depressed-globose, oval or forming short, curved or annular plasmodicarps, 0.5-1 mm wide. Peridium somewhat iridescent, thin, translucent, but finely granular. Dehiscence irregular. Capillitium consisting of a mixture of very long to very short of elaters within the same sporotheca, simple, uneven, abruptly contracted to the often bifurcate tips, marked throughout with a few scattered, blunt spines and warts, with 3-4 mostly imperfectly developed spirals which are sometimes broken and replaced for a distance by half-rings. Capillitium-spore-mass ochraceous brown. Spore-mass brown. Spores densely verrucose, pale brown, 11-13 µm diam. Plasmodium bright pink.
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- Peck,M.E., Gilbert, H. C. 1932: Myxomycetes of northwestern Oregon. American journal of botany 19: 131-147.
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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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