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Sporocarps sessile on a broad base, gregarious or crowded and then sometimes forming pseudoaethalia up to 2 mm diam., pulvinate to subglobose or occasionally forming short plasmodiocarps 0.05-0.8 mm diam., scattered, yellowish brown or reddish brown to black, often with a black margin. Peridium double, the outer layer cartilaginous, firm, opaque, thickened with dark granular deposits, the inner layer adhering closely to the outer layer, usually inconspicuous, membranous, pale yellow, transparent, sometimes somewhat iridescent, without granular deposits. Dehiscence into lobes along preformed ridges, or irregular. Capillitium scanty or occasionally lacking, attached to the peridium, consisting of sparingly branched yellow tubules 2-3.5 µm diam., marked with irregular, close-set constrictions and minute warts. Spore-mass golden yellow. Spores pale yellow, adhering loosely in clusters of 4-16, spinulose, more strongly so on the exposed surface, globose, 10-12 µm diam., varying to oval or irregular. Plasmodium watery-tan to opaque tan, ochraceous, or pinkish.
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- Brooks,T.E. 1946: A new species of Myxomycetes. Mycologia 38: 110-112.
- Eliasson,U., Lundqvist, N. 1979: Fimicolous myxomycetes. Botaniska notiser 132: 551-568.
- Imler,L., Rammeloo, J. 1984: Meise, Nat. Plantentuin van Belgie. 74 p.
- Yamamoto,Y., Harakon, Y. 2004: Two new records of myxomycetes from Japan. The Myxomycetes 22: 35-38.
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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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