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Sporocarps sessile, densely clustered, globose, 0.4-0.8 mm diam., white, deeply embedded in a thick, white, calcareous hypothallus. Peridium double, the outer layer thickly calcareous, rough, fragile, closely attached to the inner, membranous, grey layer. Columella convex or hemispherical, white, calcareous. Capillitium abundant, of brown threads with pale tips, sparsely branched and anastomosed. Spore-mass black. Spores pale yellow-brown, 8-11 µm diam., verruculose. Plasmodium white.
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- Buyck,B. 1988: The Diderma spumaroides-globosum complex. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 58: 169-218.
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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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