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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.

How to Cite

Barbosa, D. Ítallo, Melo, T.E.O., Brayner, F.A. & Cavalcanti, L.D.H. (2021) Diderma aglomerospora (Didymiaceae, Physarales, Myxomycetes), a new species from Brazil. Phytotaxa 494 (2): 231–236. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.494.2.6