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Plasmodium white, often very large. Pseudoaethalium about 5 mm tall and 5-50 mm diam. Sporothecae sessile and about 0.5 mm diam., black, when fresh sometimes dark brown or dark purple-brown. Hypothallus thin and raised around the bases of the sporothecae into an irregular net of low, narrow ridges, colourless or pale brown, with a silvery shine. Peridium completely evanescent, leaving no plates clinging to the capillitium (very rarely with thickened plates with fringed edges, which are sometimes partially connected to the capillitium). Columella absent or irregular and sometimes split; columellae may be present or absent within the same pseudoaethalium. Capillitial threads thick and dark, forming a wide-meshed reticulum with some expanded axils and with short stiff free ends at the periphery. Spores lilac-brown, 8-10 µm diam., spinose-reticulate.
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- Ing,B., Nannenga-Bremekamp, N. E. 1967: Notes on Myxomycetes. XIII. Symphytocarpus nov. gen. Stemonitacearum. Proceedings.Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.Ser.C, Biological and medical sciences 70: 217-233.
- Lado,C. 1985: Estudios sobre Myxomycetes. VI. Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 42(1): 9-23.
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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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