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Plasmodiocarps very variable in colour, white, brown or black, glossy or dull, 0.2-1 mm in length. Peridium thin, membranous, the inner surface papillate, with external deposits of refuse matter. Dehiscence by a yellow longitudinal apical line. Spore-mass brown or yellowish-brown, occasionally snow-white. Spores thin-walled, pale yellow, globose to ovoid, minutely, densely, regularly verruculose, 9-12 µm diam.
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- Krzemieniewska,H. 1934: Note sur quelques Myxomycetes nouveaux ou rares en Pologne. [in Polish, with French Summary]. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae II S: 117-135.
- Lizárraga,M., Moreno, G., Illana, C. 1998: First records of myxomycetes from the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. Micologia e Vegetazione Mediterranea 13(2): 167-176.
- Locquin,M. 1949: Analyse microcinematographique et en contrast de phase du comportement des noyaux quiescens dans les plasmodes du Myxomycete Licea biforis. Ann.Soc.Linn.Lyon 18(4): 75-76.
- McManus,M.A. 1964: Plasmodia of Myxomycetes Licea Biforis + Cribraria Violacea. Mycologia 56(2): 237-&.
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- McManus,M.A. 1966: Cultivation on Agar and study of the plasmodia of Licea biforis, Licea variabilis and Cribraria violacea. Mycologia 58: 479-483.
- McManus,M.A., Gronen, M. S. 1966: Studies on two members of the Liciales with a description of the life cycle of Licea biforis. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 73: 23-24.
- Sekhon,S.S. 1980: The Myxomycetes of Chandigarh. III. Genus Licea. Indian Jour.Mycol.and Plant Pathol. 10(1): 30-36.
- Wollman,C., Alexopoulos, C. J. 1964: Spore to spore cultivation in agar culture of three myxomycetes: Comatricha laxa, Perichaena depressa and Licea biforis. Southwestern Naturalist 9: 160-165.
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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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