Overview
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Small stipitate sporocarps, up to 0.5 mm tall. Spore-mass colourless, pale Emoto 1977 The Myxomycetes of Japan Sangyo Tosho, Tokyo.llow, ochre or pink. Capillitium, if present, not dichotomous. Almost all spp. are corticolous.
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Taxonomy
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- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Protozoa
(Goldfuss, 1818) R. Owen, 1858
- Phylum: Myxomycota
- Slime Molds
- Class: Myxomycetes
- Order: Echinosteliales
- Family: Echinosteliaceae
- Genus: Echinostelium
- Family: Echinosteliaceae
- Order: Echinosteliales
- Class: Myxomycetes
- Phylum: Myxomycota
- Slime Molds
- Kingdom: Protozoa
(Goldfuss, 1818) R. Owen, 1858
The Genus Echinostelium is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species and subspecies in the Genus Echinostelium: E. apitectum · E. arboreum · E. brooksii · E. coelocephalum · E. colliculosum · E. corynophorum · E. cribrarioides · E. de · E. elachiston · E. fragile · E. ladoi · E. lunatum · E. minutum · E. paucifilum
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