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Overview

Plasmodium watery-white or yellow. Sporocarpous to short plasmodiocarpous, 0.3-0.5 mm diam., sessile, gregarious, crowded or heaped, subglobose, or elongate, calcareous, white or grey, or nearly limeless. Peridium single, thin, ± densely coated or flecked with lime. Columella absent. Capillitium abundant, the nodes often angular and with the calcareous deposits extending into the internodes. Spore-mass purplish brown. Spores clear violaceous, verruculose, (7-)9-12 µm diam.

Names

Scientific source:       Integrated Taxonomic Information System

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Searchable databases -- The Eumycetozoan Project

References

Bonifacius,A. 1960: ........ Riv.Ortoflorofruttinolt Ital. 44: 326-331. Clark,J. 1977: Plasmodial incompatibility reactions in the true slime mold Physarum cinereum. Mycologia 69: 46-52. Clark,J., Landolt, J. C. 2001: Myxomycete biosystematics: various Didymium and Physarum species. Nova Hedwigia 73(3-4): 437-444. Muchovej,J.J., Muchovej, M. C. 1987: Physarum cinereum on turfgrass in Brasil. Fitopathologia Brasileira 12(4): 402-403. Shen,Y.-F. 1964: A study on the life cycle of Physarum cinereum grown in culture. Taiwania 10: 63-71.

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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