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Comprehensive Description

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Physarum serpula Morgan, Jour. Cine. Soc. Nat
Hist. 19: 29. 1896.
Plasmodiocarpous, forming lines, rings, or a simple network, 0.3-0.4 mm. wide, often interspersed with globose sporangiate fruitings, dull yellow or ochraceous, rarely bright yellow, fading; peridium thin, fragile, simple, membranous, persistent, borne on a diffuse hypothallus; capillitium dense, calcareous, the nodes numerous, large, angular, branching, pale yellow or whitish, connected by short, hyaline threads, often almost badhamioid; spores globose, dull black in mass, violaceous by transmitted light, minutely warted, with a paler and smoother area on one side, 10-13 n in diameter; Plasmodium at maturity greenish-yellow.
Type locality : Eastern United States (Pennsylvania or North Carolina) .
Habitat: Dead leaves, bark, wood, lichens, and old fungi.
Distribution: New York to Ontario, south to Florida and Nebraska, and in Panama; Hawaii; Japan.
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George Willard Martin, Harold William Rickett. 1949. FUNGI; MYXOMYCETES; CERATIOMYXALES, LICEALES, TEICHIALES, STEMONITALES, PHYSARALES. North American flora. vol 1. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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