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Plasmodium white or yellow. Sporocarps scattered or crowded, sessile or stipitate. Hypothallus scanty. Stalk, when present, yellowish or brown, darker at the base, furrowed and erect or sub-membranous and recumbent. Sporothecae globose, subglobose or sub-annulate, sporocarpous to sub-plasmodiocarpous, 0.5-1 mm diam. Peridium rugose, white above, often yellowish or brownish below, sometimes nearly limeless. Capillitium with large nodes, often somewhat physaroid. Spore-mass black. Spores spherical, free, usually rather dark violaceous brown, finely but densely and somewhat irregularly verruculose, 11-15 µm diam.
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- Lakhanpal,T.N. 1972: Slime-moulds of Dehli. Sydowia.2.Ser. 26: 210-213.
- Moreno,G., Illana, C., Lizárraga, M. 2001: SEM studies of the myxomycetes from the peninsula of Baja Californica (Mexico), III. Additions. Annales botanici Fennici 38: 225-247.
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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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