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Sporocarps short-stalked or sessile, pearl-grey. Peridium double, the outer layer calcareous or occasionally limeless, adhering closely to the membranous inner layer. Dehiscence irregular, leaving a ragged cup which shows white on the inside. Columella prominent, pale, subglobose, smooth or rugose. Stalk stout, reddish-brown, covered with white lime. Spores densely verruculose, 10-12 µm diam.
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- Nannenga-Bremekamp,N.E. 1968: Notes on Myxomycetes. XVI. Remarks on some species of Diderma. Proceedings.Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.Ser.C, Biological and medical sciences 71: 189-200.
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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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