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Sporocarps solitary, 0.4-0.5 mm tall. Stalk subulate with a broad, fibrous yellowish base, dark and slender above, tapered upwards and continuing to the centre of the sporotheca as a columella. Sporotheca dark brown, globose or hemispherical, flattened below, 0.2 mm diam. Peridium completely evanescent. Capillitium lax, consisting of 2(-3) slender, black branches arising from the tip of the columella and forking 3-4 times without anastomosing. Spore-mass brown. Spores grey, globose, 12-13(-20) µm diam., prominently spinose, the spines up to 1 µm tall.
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- Nannenga-Bremekamp,N.E. 1967: Notes on Myxomycetes. XII. A revision of the Stemonitales. Proceedings.Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.Ser.C, Biological and medical sciences 70: 201-216.
- Nannenga-Bremekamp,N.E., Yamamoto, Y. 1986: Additions to the Myxomycetes of Japan. II. Proceedings.Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.Ser.C, Biological and medical sciences 89(2): 217-240.
- Yamamoto,Y. 1986: The Myxomycetes of Shikoku V.. The Botanical magazine 8: 1-8.
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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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