| Scientific Name |  Click photo to enlarge. Photo by Alain Michaud. |
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| Diderma testaceum (Schrad.) Pers. - ATBI Database: Specimen Records | |||||
| Common Name | |||||
| Slime mold | |||||
| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | |
| Protozoa | Myxomycota | Myxomycetes | Physarales | Didymiaceae | |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
SPEICIES DESCRIPTION
Sporocarps sessile, gregarious, hemispherical or depressed, globose, 0.7-1 mm diam., flesh-coloured or pinkish, smooth. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Peridium double, the outer layer porcelain-like, the inner layer separate, membranous, pinkish or whitish-grey. Columella conical, prominent, pinkish-brown, rough. Capillitium abundant, the pale, delicate, sparsely branched threads. Spore-mass black. Spores pale brown, 8-9 µm diam., nearly smooth. Plasmodium yellowish-buff.Photographs:
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Text:
Steven L. Stephenson, 2007.
Photographs:
Alain Michaud.
REFERENCES
The Eumycetozoan Project. 2007. The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR 72701. Available at http://slimemold.uark.edu/index.htm.
