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Sporocarps 100-200 µm tall. Stalk base expanded and often containing granular matter, tapered upwards. Sporotheca 35-60 µm diam., pink when freshly matured, pink to pinkish brown when dry. Columella lenticular to hemispheric, borne on a short cylindrical projection of the stalk, dark brown, 4-6 µm diam., 3-5 µm tall. Peridium persisting as a minute collar 2-4 µm diam. Spore-mass pink. Spores pinkish to hyaline, globose, 10-14 µm diam., minutely roughened, with a distinctly thinner region, containing from one to several protoplasts.
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References |
- Götzsche,H.F. 1984: Contributions to the myxomycete flora of Iceland. Acta botanica Islandica 7: 13-26.
- Whitney,K.D. 1980: The myxomycete genus Echinostelium. Mycologia 72: 950-987.
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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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