FIGURE 5 in New dictyostelid cellular slime molds from South Africa

FIGURE 5. Features of Hagiwaraea tenebrica (ONG2). A. Irregular off-centered streamed aggregations, streams are broad, with lobular margins and ends, streams termina separate and can conform flattened tiny masses of pseudoplasmodia that surround the aggregation, streams also are open to incoming myxamoebae, the center is elevated, somewhat cupuliform, B. Condensed pseudoplasmodia from which arise solitary centered very early sorogens, at the basal part there are rudimentary streams (above, left), clustered early sorogens tightly joined, clustered early-late sorogens which separate (center, left), solitary late sorogen with the lower sorophore prostrate (center, right), solitary typically curved late sorogen; surrounding the base is a disrupted circle of mucilage and cells (below), C. Cluster of mature unbranched sorocarps, curved and straight, one of them decumbent with its sorus collapsed and with regrowth; sori globose, pigmented different from the sorophore and the crampon base, more obscure, D. Solitary erect sorocarp with its sorus and cramponated base and surrounded by tiny masses of pseudoplasmodia and slime, E. Crampon base immersed within its dense slime matrix full of large and small pigmented granules; the sheath is strong and attaches the structure to the substrate; the crampon base is of a darker tone of fuscus color, each crampon "root" shown is borne at a different level of the sorophore base with respect to the others and generally consists of one tier of cells; the crampon terminal "root" cell commonly clavate (left), the bases are encased in a slime sheath which is cone-like (above, left) and sometimes the base is positioned in a cavity on the substrate (center, right), a crampon base early in formation with protruding terminal cells (below, left), F. Two tips: a capitate tip with amorphous cells and flexuous subtip (above, left), a very thin one tier of cell terminus with its last section covered by a dense hyaline persistent slime that attaches undifferentiated unconnected small cells and many large and small pigmented granules, G. Microcysts, H. Spore capsule opens irregularly at the equator (left), dense myxamoebae with many dark granules (right), I. Elliptical irregular spores with polar to subpolar consolidated granules, some at the center of the spore body, of different sizes with vacuoles and heterogeneous content. Bars: A–B = 200 μm, C–D = 300 μm, E = 25 μm, F = 7 μm, G = 2 μm, H = 10 μm, I = 5 μm.