I have found this cluster of myxocarps aggregated in tight groups (but never in plasmidiocarps) on a decaying legume (fruit) of a carob tree. After sitting in the waiting list for months, today I decided to study this slime mould.
The myxocarps are about 0.5-0.9 mm across, seem spherical but a lateral view shows they have a conical blackish base and sometimes a cream-mustard pseudostipe, making some of the fruiting bodies have a pear-shape structure. Interestingly the lime on the peridium is not thick, rather vein-line with nodules scattered here and there and overall, the peridium is moderately irridiscent esp. in artificial (LED) light.
Now comes the hardest part of me - Badhamia or Physarum type of capillitium?????
Essentially, the structure is made of columnar lime with various Y-shaped particles but also with fine, hyaline threads from them. For me, it is more a Badhamoid capillitium, but not sure.
The spores are globular, spinulose-punctate with very tiny dot-like projections rather than warts of spines, evenly distributed without dark or pale patches or lines or irregular patches whatsoever. They measure (8.5)9.0-10.0(10.5) um across, rather homogenous.
In the end, I concluded it is Badhamia foliicola (second preference a Physarum cinerea) but I wait confirmations after I assign this name to the species.
Thank you