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Plasmodium yellow or olive-green. Sporocarps gregarious, stipitate, rarely sessile. Stalk cylindric or tapering upward, stout, opaque, typically white, sometimes ochraceous or tawny, furrowed, calcareous, short, up to c. 50% of the total height. Sporotheca globose or somewhat flattened below, 0.4-0.5 mm diam., usually yellow to dull orange, but varying from yellowish grey or honey yellow to bright orange-red or reddish brown. Peridium rugose, persistent below, encrusted with lime. Columella small, conical, white or yellowish, rarely orange. Capillitium abundant, the nodes large, angular, white or less commonly yellow or orange. Hypothallus white or colourless. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores pale violet-brown, verruculose, 7.5-10 µm diam.
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- Clark,J., Stephenson, S. L. 2000: Biosystematics of the myxomycete Physarum melleum. Nova Hedwigia 71: 161-164.
- Clark,J., Stephenson, S. L. 2003: Biosystematics of the myxomycetes Didymium squamulosum, Physarum compressum, and Physarum melleum: Additional isolates. Mycotaxon 85: 85-89.
- Härkönen,M., Saarimäki, T. 1991: Tanzanian Myxomycetes: first survey. Karstenia 31: 31-54.
- Illana,C., Moreno, G., Castillo, A., Garcia, J. R. 1997: Myxomycetes de Espana. IX. Taxones criticos y raros para Extremadura. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 18(3): 233-246.
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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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