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Sporocarps 250-500 µm tall. Stalk 125-350 µm long, tapered upwards from an expanded base, usually stuffed with granular debris along its entire length, 5-12 µm diam. at the apex. Sporotheca 60-120 µm diam., cream to golden yellow. Columella 4-25 µm tall and 4-8 µm diam. in the type, absent in later gatherings. Capillitium branched and anastomosed to form a rigid, globose net with few free ends, the threads up to 2 µm diam. Peridium usually remaining as a membranous collar at the base of the sporotheca, the collar 6-15 µm diam. Spore-mass cream to yellow. Spores yellow to hyaline, globose, 8-10 µm diam., minutely roughened and bearing numerous raised pads.
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- Alexopoulos,C.J. 1961: A new species of Echinostelium from Greece. The American midland naturalist 66: 391-394.
- Härkönen,M. 1977: Corticolous Myxomycetes in three different habitats in southern Finland. Karstenia 17: 19-32.
- Lakhanpal,T.N., Sood, R. 1981: Experimental Studies on Indian Myxomycetes III. Sporangial development in Echinostelium cribrarioides. Trans.Mycol.Soc.Japan 22: 149-152.
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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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