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Sporocarps clustered on shared stalks and covered with a common, white, calcareous crust, the individual sporocarps 0.7-2 mm diam. Hypothallus membranous, confluent, often calcareous but not prominent. Stalk weak, white, calcareous. Peridium double, the outer layer fragile and calcareous, forming the shared covering, the inner membranous layer, covered with crystals. Columella absent. Capillitium rigid, sparsely branched, pale brown. Spore-mass black. Spores lilac-brown, 10-14 µm diam., verruculose or spinulose. Plasmodium white. On leaf litter.
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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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