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Sporocarps sessile on a broad base, clustered or sometimes scattered, flattened, pulvinate, occasionally slightly elongated, 0.8-2.0 mm diam., purple-brown. Hypothallus a thick, reddish brown layer. Peridium persistent, often wrinkled, thin, membranous, transparent, iridescent with green, blue or purple reflections, or sometimes dull, firmly attached to the capillitial tips. Capillitium arising from the base, branched and anastomosed to form a dense, lax network of hollow, hyaline tubules, c. 1.5 µm wide, with expanded, usually triangular, brownish nodes, without beaded thickenings. Spore-mass black to purple-brown. Spores purple-brown to dusky brown, uniformly coloured, (12-)13-16 µm diam. including ornamentation, densely and uniformly spinose, the spines c. 0.7 µm tall. Nivicole.
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- Bozonnet,J.M., Meyer, M., Poulain, M. 1990: A propos de Diacheopsis metallica Meylan. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Pilze Mitteleuropas 6: 29-33.
- Meylan,C. 1930: Note sur un nouveau genre de myxomycetes. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 57: 147-149.
- Yamamoto,Y., Tamayama, M. 1995: Diacheopsis metallica, a new record from Japan. The Myxomycetes 13: 5-6.
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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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