Echinosteliales

Fruiting bodies are tiny stalked sporangia up to 1.5 mm high. Columella scanty or absent; capillitium present or absent; stalk pale or dark, containing granular matter in lower part; spores usually bright but some brown; plasmodium protoplasmodium.

Family Echinosteliaceae   Genus Echinostelium

Family Clastodermataceae   Genera Clastoderma and Barbyella

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Clastoderma debaryanum 1375

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