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Dictyostelium brefeldianum H. Hagiw
Life   Amoebozoa   Eumycetozoa   Dictyosteliaceae   Dictyostelium


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When cultured at 20 C on non-nutrient agar with Escherichia coli, sorocarps usually solitary, unbranched or sparsely and irregularly branched, phototropic, sometimes prostrate; sorophores colorless, sinuous, 0.1-4.5 (-10.5) mm in length, usually tapering from expanded bases to capitate tips, 10-30 (-35) µm in diam. at a level 100 µm above the base, 3.5-10 (-12) µm in diam. at a level 50 µm below the tip; sori white, globose, 25-230 (-280) µm in diam.; spores hyaline, ellipsoid, usually 1.62-2.00 times longer than broad, smooth, mostly 5.3-7.3 x 3.0-3.9 (MD 5.99-6.66 x 3.38-3.62) µm, without polar granules; pseudoplasmodia with radiate streams, 0.4-2.1 mm in diam., not migrating without stalk formation, usually producing single sorogens. Microcysts and macrocysts not reported.

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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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