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Sporocarps tufted, 2.5-5.0 mm high, pale lilac-grey, later dark brown. Hypothallus red-brown; continuous under a group, inconspicuous. Stalk 0.1-0.5 mm, 25-50% of the total height; black and in TL opaque above, usually red-brown. Columella usually merging into capillitium just below the apex. Capillitium red-brown; the internal net with ca. 5 meshes on the radius, threads thin and tapered outwards, with few expansions; surface net fragile, meshes angular 5-15 µm diam. basally, usually absent above, the meshes almost smooth to spinose. Spores very pale lilac-grey by TL; 5-7 µm diam.; banded-reticulate with small regular meshes connected by larger ones. Common on decayed conifer wood.
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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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