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Type: Article
Published: 2021-04-06
Page range: 231–236
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Diderma aglomerospora (Didymiaceae, Physarales, Myxomycetes), a new species from Brazil

Departamento de Botânica, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n. Cidade Universitária, 50670–420, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Departamento de Botânica, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n. Cidade Universitária, 50670–420, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Departamento de Parasitologia-Instituto Aggeu Magalhães/IAM-FIOCRUZ and Laboratório de Imunopatologia Keizo Asami-UFPE, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Departamento de Botânica, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n. Cidade Universitária, 50670–420, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Amoebozoa plasmodial slime moulds mixogastria corticolous tropical forest Fungi

Abstract

Diderma aglomerospora is here proposed as a new species based on morphological analyses. The new species resembles D. badhamioides by possessing clustered spores but differs from it by the absence  of a columella and narrower filaments of the capillitium. The type material was developed in moist chamber assembled with bark of live trees from a restinga forest environment in the Guadalupe Environmental Protection Area, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil. Sporocarps are described and illustrated, and comments on characteristics of the microhabitat are provided.