Additions to the myxomycetes known from New Zealand, including a new species of Diderma
Steven L. Stephenson A E , Yuri K. Novozhilov B , Clive Shirley C and David W. Mitchell DA Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.
B V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 197376, St Petersburg, Russia.
C 120 Aranui Road, Mt Wellington, Auckland 1060, New Zealand.
D Walton Cottage, Upper Hartfield, East Sussex, England, TN7 4AN.
E Corresponding author. Email: slsteph@uark.edu
Australian Systematic Botany 22(6) 466-472 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB09020
Submitted: 7 May 2009 Accepted: 22 September 2009 Published: 21 December 2009
Abstract
Specimens of myxomycetes obtained as field collections or from moist-chamber cultures during surveys for these organisms carried out at several localities in New Zealand have yielded eight species not included in the monograph of the group published in 2003. One other species, listed provisionally as Diderma cf. miniatum on the basis of a single, rather limited collection, but now known from several additional collections, is described herein as Diderma novae-zelandiae. These new records bring the number of myxomycetes reported from New Zealand to 196 species.
Acknowledgements
Appreciation is extended to Dr Alisa Borodina-Grabovskaya for providing the Latin description. We thank Diana Wrigley de Basanta for confirming the identifications of the two species of Licea, Carlos Rojas for providing images of two of the images used in this paper, and John Shadwick for helping prepare Fig. 2.
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