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Sporocarps 90-150 µm tall. Stalk 50-110 µm long, tapered upward from an expanded base which sometimes contains granular matter, 1.5-3 µm diam. at the apex. Sporotheca 40-60 µm diam., white. Columella hemispheric, borne on a short projection of the stalk, hyaline to yellow brown, 3-5 µm diam., 3.5-6 µm high. Peridium remaining as a 2.5-5 µm diam. collar at the base of the sporotheca Spore-mass white. Spores hyaline, globose, 10-15(-16) µm diam., minutely roughened, bearing pads at points of spore-to-spore contact.
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- 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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