Overview
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Sporocarps caespitose or crowded, sessile or sub-stipitate. Peridium persistent, iridescent. Columella absent or present, sometimes reaching the apex, sometimes branched at the base into 2 or 3 main branches. Capillitium netted, arising from the length of a columella, with free tips at the periphery.
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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: Stemonitales
- Family: Stemonitidaceae
- Genus: Paradiachea
- Family: Stemonitidaceae
- Order: Stemonitales
- Class: Myxomycetes
- Phylum: Myxomycota
- Slime Molds
- Kingdom: Protozoa
(Goldfuss, 1818) R. Owen, 1858
The Genus Paradiachea is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in the Genus Paradiachea: P. anglica · P. caespitosa · P. cylindrica · P. howardii · P. rispaudii
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