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Sporocarps grouped to crowded, sometimes heaped, sessile, sometimes forming plasmodiocarps up to 2 mm long. Sporothecae subglobose, 0.7-1.3 mm diam., yellow with dark yellowish brown or blackish patches and/or thread-like surface markings. Hypothallus membranous to leathery, confluent, dark. Peridium double, the outer layer thick, opaque, deep yellowish brown by TL, with abundant granular refuse matter, weathering in patches to expose the inner layer, the inner layer thin, membranous, translucent, hyaline. Dehiscence irregular, leaving a deep funnel-shaped cup with a torn border. Capillitium elastic, the elaters 5-6 µm diam., flexuous, simple or with short side branches, bearing 4-5 smooth spiral bands, the free ends pointed, the tapered part 30-50 µm long. Spore-mass brilliant yellow or brilliant orange yellow. Spores greenish yellow, 12-14 µm diam., densely, faintly warted. Nivicole.
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- Illana,C., Moreno, G., Castillo, A. 1993: Spanish Myxomycetes VIII. Some nivicolous Myxomycetes from central Spain. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 14(4): 241-253.
- Johannesen,E. 1984: A new species of Trichia (Myxomycetes) from Norway. Mycotaxon 20(1)
- Marx,H. 1998: Trichia sordida in Feuchtkammer - ein deutscher Erstnachweis - und andere seltene Myxomyceten aus Thueringen. Boletus 22: 107-111.
- Yamamoto,Y., Takahashi, K. 1995: Six myxomycetes new or rare to Japan. Bull.Okayama Pref.Nature Cons.Center 3: 33-40.
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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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