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Sporocarps short-stalked or sessile, densely clustered or forming a pseudoaethalium. Sporothecae ovoid to short-cylindrical, 0.4-0.6 mm wide, white. Hypothallus extensive, confluent, white. Stalk white, as a continuation of the hypothallus. Peridium double, the outer layer calcareous, fragile, fugaceous, the inner layer membranous, often tinged purple. Capillitium abundant, consisting of numerous rounded or angular white nodes and hyaline tubules, the nodes often massed to form a pseudocolumella. Spore-mass black. Spores dark purple-brown, 12-15 µm diam., densely spinulose, sometimes angular or irregular in shape. Plasmodium white or pale grey.
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- Gray,W.D. 1949: The laboratory cultivation and development of the Myxomycetes Physarella oblonga and Physarum didermoides. The Ohio journal of science 49: 105-108.
- Michalski,A., Skupienski, F. X. 1939: Recherches ecologiques sur Physarum didermoides Rost, Myxomycete emdospore. Comptes rendus des seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paries 208: 225-228.
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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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