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Cornuvia serpula (Wigand) Rostaf
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Forming subglobose sporocarps or small branched or netted plasmodiocarps, sessile, shining golden yellow. Peridium membranous, delicate, smooth, pale yellow. Capillitium a flaccid, loose network of yellow threads 3-5 µm diam., marked with well-defined ring-like thickenings clustered at intervals or irregularly scattered, smooth between the rings and at junctions, with occasional or numerous free ends. Spores yellow, coarsely reticulate with narrow bands forming 8-12 meshes to the hemisphere, 10-12 µm diam. Plasmodium creamy white.

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References
  • Coon,J.M. 1907: Cornuvia serpula, a species new to Britain. J.Roy.Microscop.Soc. 8: 142-146.
  • Rammeloo,J. 1983: Meise, Nationale Plantentuin van Belgie. 34 p.

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The Eumycetozoan Project -- working to understand the ecology, sytematics and evolution of myxomycetes, dictostelids and protostelids -- the true slime molds.

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