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Echinostelium coelocephalum T. E. Brooks et H. W Keller
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Echinostelium coelocephalum
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Echinostelium coelocephalum

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Sporocarps 47-70 µm tall. Stalk 12-40 µm long, expanded below and tapered upward, 1.5-2.5 µm diam. at the apex. Sporotheca 30-40 µm diam., white to yellow. Columella globose, spore-like, hyaline, 9-12 µm diam., bearing thickened pads on the upper hemisphere at points of spore contact. Peridium persisting below as a thickened collar at the base of the columella, the collar 5-8 µm diam. Spore-mass white to yellow. Spores hyaline, globose, 8-12 µm diam., minutely roughened, bearing pads of uniform thickness at points of spore-to-spore contact, the pads c. 1 µm thick and c. 5 µm diam.

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References
  • Haskins,E.F., McGuinness, M. D. 1986: Comparative ultrastructural observations of spore wall structure in six species of Echinostelium and three species of Eumycetozoa. Mycologia 78: 613-618.
  • Haskins,E.F., McGuinness, M. D., Clark, J. 2000: Heterothallic mating systems in the Echinosteliales II. Echinostelium coelocephalum. Mycologia 92: 1080-1084.
  • Keller,H.W., Brooks, T. E. 1976: Corticolous Myxomycetes V: Observations on the genus Echinostelium. Mycologia 68: 1204-1220.
  • Pando,F. 1989: Un estudio sobre los Myxomycetes corticolas de la isla de Mallorca. Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 46(1): 181-188.

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The Eumycetozoan Project -- working to understand the ecology, sytematics and evolution of myxomycetes, dictostelids and protostelids -- the true slime molds.

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