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Sporocarps stalked, but sometimes sessile or forming long plasmodiocarps. Sporthecae subglobose to erect-ovoid or cylindrical, 0.3-0.6 mm diam., usually white, weathering to yellowish grey. Peridium thin, wrinkled, bearing uniform, sometimes squamulose, lime deposits. Stalk, when present, yellow or brownish, usually enclosing lime, especially at the base, sometimes limeless. Hypothallus white or ochraceous. Capillitium intricate, persistent, somewhat elastic, the nodes white, varying in size, in the stalked forms tending to form a central, often cylindrical, pseudocolumella, sometimes with large crystalline nodules in the centre. Spore-mass black. Spores purplish brown, spinulose, 8-10 µm diam. Plasmodium watery grey.
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- Farr,M.L. 1974: Some new Myxomycetes records for the Neotropics and some Taxonomic Problems in the Myxomycetes. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 81: 37-40.
- Lado,C., Moreno, G. 1981: Estudios sobre Myxomycetes. V. Notes sobre gran Canaria, Islas Canarias. Botanica Macaronesica 8 bis 9: 59-69.
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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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