venulose
Americanadjective
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M. polymórpha, L. Thallus 2–5´ long, ½–1½´ wide, numerously porose, venulose; receptacle divided into usually 9 terete rays; peduncles 1–3´ high; antheridial disk crenately or palmately 2–8-lobed, on a peduncle 1´ high or less.—Everywhere common.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Sporangia subglobose, irregular, sessile, crowded, forming clusters or effused patches; the wall thin, yellow, densely granulose and venulose.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
The plasmodium pale yellow, some part of it not infrequently remains as a venulose hypothallus connecting such sporangia as are near together.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
Stipe short, thick, white, arising from a white, venulose, hypothallus, tapering upward; the columella cylindric or slightly tapering, obtuse, terminating below the apex of the sporangium.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
Sporangia gregarious, obovoid, stipitate; the wall a thickened reddish-brown membrane, the upper part covered by a thin layer of white granules of lime, the lower basal portion naked, strongly venulose and more persistent.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
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