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Overview

Sporocarps stalked, often with united stalks, usually gregarious in large developments, 3-4 mm total height. Sporotheca obovate to globose, black or dark chestnut-brown. Hypothallus dark red, confluent. Stalk hollow, dark red to black, red by TL. Peridium double, the outer layer cartilaginous, the inner layer membranous. Dehiscence into a 4-6 petaloid lobes. Capillitium of long, orange-red unbranched tubes, coiled and folded back on themselves, 5-6 µm diam., with 4-6 smooth spirals, gradually tapered into long points. Spore-mass bright orange-brown. Spores red-brown, 10-12 µm diam., densely spinulose. Plasmodium dark red to black.

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Searchable databases -- The Eumycetozoan Project

References

Nannenga-Bremekamp,N.E. 1985: Notes on Myxomycetes. XXII. Three new species, two new families and four new combinations. Proceedings.Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.Ser.C, Biological and medical sciences 88(1): 121-

Acknowledgements

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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