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Sporocarps scattered, greyish, total height 0.5-0.8 mm. Sporotheca hemispherical, c. 0.7 mm diam. Hypothallus large, by TL red-brown, glossy, concolorous with the stalk and radially veined. Stalk 0.5-0.7 mm long, stout, black or nearly so, umber-brown, translucent, free of granular matter, costate, gradually passing into the peridium where the ribs are converted into veins. Columella none. Peridium with a powdery coating of white lime, colourless above, rather pale rosy-umber beneath, veined at the base. Dehiscence irregular, the flat basal part persistent. Capillitium scanty, consisting of thin, purple-brown and/or colourless, flexuose threads which are attached to the base and connected transversely, and with many irregular, long, dark-brown, often confluent thickenings. Spore-mass very dark brown. Spores pale lilac, 8-10 µm diam., rather distinctly but somewhat irregularly warted. Plasmodium greenish-yellow, submerged.
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- Gottsberger,G., Nannenga-Bremekamp, N. E. 1971: A new species of Didymium from Brazil. Proceedings.Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.Ser.C, Biological and medical sciences 74(3): 265-268.
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