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    Capillitium (pl. capillitia) is a mass of sterile fibers within a fruit body interspersed among spores. It is found in Mycetozoa (slime molds) and gasteroid...
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    a columella but have a well-developed capillitium for spore dispersal. The shape and details of the capillitium are used to define families within the...
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    the Bovista-type or intermediate capillitium. Further divisions into sections and series is based on the capillitium type, the absence or presence of...
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    distinctive feature is the presence of multicellular vesicles within the capillitium. Joszef Tomasz Rostafinski (1850–1928) first described this species....
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    puffballs. The gleba consists of mycelium and basidia and may also contain capillitium threads. Gleba found on the fruit body of species in the family Phallaceae...
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    described as having numerous capillitium threads, which are free and tapered at the ends. Hemitrichia is described as having capillitium threads that can either...
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    characterized by "Endoperidium thick, spongy; exoperidium thin, smooth. Capillitium with small pits. Subgleba none. Mature gleba olivaceous to brown." Gastropila...
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    pyramidal warts, and microscopically by the antler-like branches of its capillitium (thread-like material among the spores). Calbovista subsculpta is a good...
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    a circular indentation appears in almost all of their peridia. The capillitium (the sterile fibers within the peridium) of the mass are pale yellow...
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    peridium. The network of fertile tissue inside the inner peridium, the capillitium, arises from the columella. This is where basidia and basidiospores are...
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  • which is a grouping characterized by "Exoperidium spiny or areolate. Capillitium with small or large pits. Subgleba cellular or rudimentary. Mature gleba...
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    distinct microscopic features: Handkea species have a unique type of capillitium (coarse thick-walled hyphae in the gleba), with curvy slits instead of...
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    white, hemispheric or depressed and irregular, the surface granulose. Capillitium of very slender, colored threads, the extremities pellucid, more or less...
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    covered with minute warts, and measure 3.5–4.5 μm. It has yellowish-brown capillitium threads that have a few pores or septa, and measure 6–7 μm wide. There...
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    distinct microscopic features: Handkea species have a unique type of capillitium (coarse thick-walled hyphae in the gleba), with curvy slits instead of...
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    nearly smooth, with a central oil droplet, and a 7.5–11.5 μm pedicel. The capillitium is composed of individual elements, rather than interwoven, main branches...
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    spores are stored in a reticular or filamentous structure – the so-called capillitium – and are found on nearly all species except Liceida and other species...
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    Calvatia with distinct microscopic features, including a unique type of capillitium (coarse thick-walled hyphae in the gleba), with curvy slits instead of...
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    roughened by many small points or warts, and measure 2.4–4 μm. The capillitium is thick-walled, unbranched, and 4–7 μm thick. Similar species include...
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    extensive splitting and cracking. The gleba is often dark purple-brown. The capillitium is highly branched with brown dendroid elements. Spores are brown and...
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  • Maisonneuve and Camille Montagne in Algeria. Due to its Bovista-like capillitium it was previously placed in the genus Bovistella. It is nonpoisonous...
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    edge, however, continues to permanently stick with the substrate. The capillitium comprises a few rotund chalk knots, which are linked through transparent...
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    and deeper beneath, surviving as an initially shallow calyculus. The capillitium from the mass is olive to olive-yellow and is composed of non-overgrown...
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    the peridium, the gleba consists of spherical, warted spores, and a capillitium of simple or branched hyphal threads that have spiral or angular thickenings...
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  • purple-brown. It features dark lime tubercles only on the dehiscence lines. A capillitium is less developed and is composed of pale purple-brown, slim, vermiculated...
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    gleba, which is composed of a pseudocolumella, unbranched threads (the capillitium), the spore-bearing cells (basidia) and the spores themselves; all of...
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    spherical, dark brown spores with rounded bumps on their surfaces, and a capillitium—intricately branched fibers that form long thorn-like spines. The puffball...
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    mass of brown, powdery spores mixed with thick-walled fibres known as capillitium. The flesh is bitter.[citation needed] The spores are rounded, with warts...
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    alutaceous layer of granules of lime, forming the base of the plasmodiocarp. Capillitium of short colorless threads, extending from base to layer of the wall...
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  • protuberance (the capillitium) at the end of a straight or curved thin brownish-black stalk, the fruit body ranges from 0.8 to 3 mm tall. The capillitium is typically...
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