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Plasmodium white. Sporocarps greyish white, clustered or scattered, stipitate or sessile. Stalk, when present, an extension of the reticulate hypothallus, slender, white or pale ochraceous, or translucent, often branched. Sporotheca subglobose or obovoid, 0.5-1 mm diam. Peridium double, greyish white above, with scattered flakes of lime, the outer layer limy, persisting below as a white or ochraceous, poorly-defined cup, the inner layer membranous, hyaline, delicate, dehiscing at the apex. Capillitium dense, rigid, persistent, the nodes numerous, white, rounded or lobed, sometimes massed in the centre to form a pseudocolumella. Spore-mass black. Spores dark yellowish brown, verrucose, with clusters of larger warts, 10-11 µm diam.
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- Heykoop,M., Illana, C., Moreno, G. 1988: Nueva Apoertacion al estudio de los Myxomycetes de Alcala de Henares (Madrid). Bol.Soc.Micol.Madrid 12: 3-8.
- Jahn,E. 1918: Myxomycetenstudien. 9. Bemerkungen über einige seltene oder neue Arten. Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 36: 660-669.
- Lizárraga,M., Moreno, G., Illana, C. 1997: The Myxomycetes from Baja Californica (Mexico). I.. Mycotaxon 63: 287-300.
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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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