Overview
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Sporocarps usually densely crowded. Peridium membranous. Capillitium of simple or branched elaters, free from the base and capillitium and not forming a network, faintly decorated with spirals and sometimes warts and/or rings. Spore-mass yellow to ochre.
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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: Trichiales
- Family: Trichiaceae
- Genus: Oligonema
- Family: Trichiaceae
- Order: Trichiales
- Class: Myxomycetes
- Phylum: Myxomycota
- Slime Molds
- Kingdom: Protozoa
(Goldfuss, 1818) R. Owen, 1858
The Genus Oligonema is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species and subspecies in the Genus Oligonema: O. aeneum · O. aurantium · O. bavaricum · O. brevifilum · O. broomei · O. dancoii · O. flavidum · O. fulvum · O. furcatum · O. heterophylla · O. intermedium · O. minutulum · O. oedonema · O. schweinitzii · O. vulgare
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