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Sporocarps clustered or gregarious. Sporothecae globose or somewhat depressed, 0.5-0.7 mm diam., short-stalked or sessile, white or pale pinkish grey. Peridium double, the outer layer calcareous, polished, rugose, reddish purple within, the inner layer delicate, shining, membranous, translucent, closely applied to the outer layer but somewhat separable. Columella clavate, spherical above, greyish purple to deep purplish red, sometimes connected by stout, calcareous bars to the peridium. Stalk, when present, short, stout, furrowed, white or pinkish, merging with the white hypothallus. Capillitium of slender purplish or hyaline threads, or purplish with hyaline tips, sparsely branched. Spore-mass black. Spores globose to ovate, sometimes apiculate at one or both ends, smoky-brown, verrucose, (10.5-)11-12 µm diam. Plasmodium unknown.
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- Lakhanpal,T.N. 1973: Myxomycetes of Himachal Pradesh. - II. Indian Phytopathology 26: 691-697.
- Martin,G.W. 1947: Taxonomic notes on Myxomycetes. II. Mycologia 39: 453-462.
- Thind,K.S., Khara, H. S., Soni, J. S. 1971: The Myxomycetes of India-XXIV. Proceedings.Indian Academy of Sciences.Plant sciences 41(1): 47-58.
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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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