identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
DA45F895166654B0952CE45E62582434.text	DA45F895166654B0952CE45E62582434.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Arcyria cinerea (Bull.) Pers.	<div><p>Arcyria cinerea (Bull.) Pers.</p><p>Fig. 3 A</p><p>Recorded as sporophore.</p><p>Sporophore stalked. Stalk: pale yellow, darker at base. Sporotheca: cylindric to subcylindric pale grey (1 B 1). Peridium: simple, partially fugacious except for the base, forming a small calyculus. Hypothallus: brown, membranous. Capillitium: abundant, elastic, firmly attached to calyculus, pale yellow to hyaline, highly branched, spinulose to smooth. Spores: globose to subglobose, pale yellow to hyaline, with minute spines to nearly smooth, 6.5–8.0 µm.</p><p>Substrate.</p><p>leaf litter</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>HUEG 22235.</p><p>Geographic distribution.</p><p>Americas (Lado and Basanta 2008; Rincón-Marín et al. 2021; Salazar-Hernández et al. 2021; Stephenson et al. 2021); Africa (Ndiritu et al. 2009; Kryvomaz et al. 2020); Europe (Bortnikov et al. 2020; Cazabonne et al. 2021); Asia (Ranade et al. 2012; Nguyen et al. 2019; Stephenson 2021); Oceania (Stephenson 2021). In Brazil: There are records of occurrence in all biomes (Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, Cerrado, Pampa and Pantanal) (Bezerra et al. 2007, 2010; Alves et al. 2010; Cavalcanti 2010; Agra et al. 2014; Bezerra et al. 2014; Cavalcanti et al. 2014).</p><p>Although the material is consistent with the morphological concept of A. cinerea, the name is treated here in a broad sense (sensu lato) due to the ongoing revision of the species complex.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DA45F895166654B0952CE45E62582434	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Moreira, Izabel Cristina;Cavalcanti, Laise de Holanda;Marley-Santos, Roberth Lopes;Leonardo-Silva, Lucas;de Lima, Luciene Araújo;Xavier-Santos, Solange	Moreira, Izabel Cristina, Cavalcanti, Laise de Holanda, Marley-Santos, Roberth Lopes, Leonardo-Silva, Lucas, de Lima, Luciene Araújo, Xavier-Santos, Solange (2026): First records of myxomycetes (Amebozoa, Eumycetozoa) in cave in Central Brazil. Subterranean Biology 57: 91-103, DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.57.193389
150B9AC6AD125FE9B77D559BE6EF3029.text	150B9AC6AD125FE9B77D559BE6EF3029.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cribraria elegans Berk. & Curt	<div><p>Cribraria elegans Berk. &amp; Curt</p><p>Fig. 3 C</p><p>Recorded as sporophore.</p><p>Sporophore stalked. Stalk: slender, blackish purple. Sporotheca: globose, dark purplish-brown, erect or nodding. Peridium: cup occupying 1 / 2 of the sporotheca, nodes of the peridial net expanded, flat, polygonal and scarcely thickened. Spores: pale yellow to hyaline globose, minutely warted, 5.6–6.5 μm.</p><p>Substrate.</p><p>decaying wood fragments.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>HUEG 22236.</p><p>Geographic distribution.</p><p>Americas (Lado and Basanta 2008); Europe (Bochynek 2015; Bortnikov et al. 2020). In Brazil: found only in the Cerrado biome (Putzke 1996; Maimoni-Rodella 2002).</p><p>Many of the sporophores found formed aggregates on the wood fragment. Although it has a cosmopolitan distribution, in Brazil its occurrence is restricted to the Cerrado biome. In this study, it was observed in substrates associated with the photic zone of the cave, representing the first record of the species and of the Cribrariaceae family in a cave environment.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/150B9AC6AD125FE9B77D559BE6EF3029	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Moreira, Izabel Cristina;Cavalcanti, Laise de Holanda;Marley-Santos, Roberth Lopes;Leonardo-Silva, Lucas;de Lima, Luciene Araújo;Xavier-Santos, Solange	Moreira, Izabel Cristina, Cavalcanti, Laise de Holanda, Marley-Santos, Roberth Lopes, Leonardo-Silva, Lucas, de Lima, Luciene Araújo, Xavier-Santos, Solange (2026): First records of myxomycetes (Amebozoa, Eumycetozoa) in cave in Central Brazil. Subterranean Biology 57: 91-103, DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.57.193389
AEE3E1CEC0A7505AA3980F3270358F84.text	AEE3E1CEC0A7505AA3980F3270358F84.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Perichaena depressa Lib.	<div><p>Perichaena depressa Lib.</p><p>Fig. 3 D, E</p><p>Recorded as sporophore.</p><p>Sporophore: sessile, short plasmodiocarps. Sporotheca: strongly flattened, reddish brown or blackened brown (6 F 4). Peridium: double, external layer cartilaginous, firm, opaque, thickened with granules, inner layer membranous, translucent, brilliant, light yellow (3 A 4); dehiscence circumscissile along the line formed just by the inner layer of the peridium. Capillitium: tubular, abundant, filaments branched, minutely warted or, more frequently, with regularly spaced constrictions. Spores: subglobose, pale yellow, warted, 8.3–9.5 µm diam.</p><p>Substrate.</p><p>leaf litter and decaying wood fragments.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>HUEG 22237; HUEG 22238, HUEG 22239, HUEG 22240.</p><p>Geographic distribution.</p><p>Americas (Lado and Basanta 2008; Rincón-Marín et al. 2021; Salazar-Hernández et al. 2021; Stephenson et al. 2021); Africa (Ndiritu et al. 2009; Kryvomaz et al. 2020); Europe (Bortnikov et al. 2020; Cazabonne et al. 2021); Asia (Ranade et al. 2012; Nguyen et al. 2019; Stephenson 2021); Oceania (Stephenson 2021). In Brazil: found in all biomes (Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, Cerrado, Pampa, and Pantanal) (Bezerra et al. 2007, 2010; Alves et al. 2010; Cavalcanti 2010; Cavalcanti et al. 2016; Parentes and Cavalcanti 2023).</p><p>This species was the most frequent in the sampling. It should be noted that the sporotheca of some samples presented a light gray coloration and a powdery appearance, giving the surface an appearance similar to a thin layer of sand; while the dehiscence and micromorphological characteristics were consistent with the species description.</p><p>Unidentified specimen</p><p>Fig. 3 B</p><p>Recorded as sporophore. Sporophore stalked. Stalk: short, black, thick. Sporotheca: oval to subglobose, black (26 F 1). Peridium: fugacious.</p><p>Substrate. leaf litter.</p><p>Material examined. HUEG 22241.</p><p>The material found was aborted, preventing its identification; however, a preliminary assessment suggests that it may belong to the family Stemonitaceae .</p><p>The literature on myxomycetes in cave environments is still incipient, with a reduced number of taxa recorded in these ecosystems. There is only one study on the subject in Brazil to date, conducted in the karst region of Pains, in Minas Gerais, in which three species of the family Trichiaceae were recorded associated with decaying wood fragments located in skylight areas, where there is greater deposition of plant material and light incidence in relation to other sections of the cave environment (Moreira et al. 2024).</p><p>Similarly, myxomycete sporophores were found in caves of the Rio Camuy system in Puerto Rico on decaying wood and other organic substrates, such as leaf litter and bat bones (Nieves-Rivera 2003). These records indicate that the occurrence of these organisms in subterranean environments is associated with the entry of allochthonous organic matter, transported by rainwater, wind, or faunal action (Hoffmann et al. 1986; Landolt et al. 1992; Nieves-Rivera 2003), from which propagules can germinate and give rise to plasmodia inside the cavities. This development can also occur on mineral surfaces, including speleothems, where there are records of the formation of fruiting bodies, as observed for F. septica in the field (Galán 2015). Considering the inherent limitations of humid chambers, in which development may occur from propagules present in the substrate under favorable conditions, these records should be interpreted with caution, since detection in culture does not necessarily imply completion of the life cycle in the natural environment.</p><p>Sporophore formation in humid chambers prepared with leaf litter and decomposing wood fragments evidenced the presence of viable propagules associated with these materials. This finding suggests that such organic materials may act as potential vehicles for the introduction of myxomycete propagules into cave environments, as previously indicated by Hoffmann et al. (1986) and Nieves-Rivera (2003), even when fruiting is not directly observed under natural conditions. In this sense, humid chambers provide a useful complementary approach for detecting viable propagules associated with cave substrates, favoring the development of reproductive structures under controlled conditions and allowing the recording of species that may not be observed directly in the field.</p><p>The data from this study expand current knowledge of myxomycetes associated with cave environments by recording representatives of Cribrariaceae and the Perichaena genus in this type of environment for the first time, as well as A. cinerea for the first time in a Brazilian Cerrado cave. Until then, records in caves mainly focused on representatives of the orders Trichiales, Physarales, and Stemonitales, belonging to the families: Arcyriaceae ( A. denudata), Trichiaceae ( H. calyculata, M. vesparia), Didymiaceae ( Didymium trachysporum G. Lister), Physaraceae ( F. septica) and Stemonitaceae ( Comatricha sp., Stemonitis cf. herbatica Peck), reported in caves in Brazil (Moreira et al. 2024), Porto Rico (Nieves-Rivera 2003), Spain (Galán 2015), the United States (Landolt et al. 1992) and Mexico (Hoffmann et al. 1986). This scenario reinforces the importance of new surveys in different regions and types of underground environments to broaden understanding of the distribution and diversity of this group.</p><p>The conservation of these environments is fundamental considering that the combination of monitoring, tourism management, scientific research, and environmental education is essential to guarantee preservation of communities of myxomycetes, fungi, and other microorganisms involved in decomposing organic matter and consequently in maintaining the ecological balance of underground environments. Studies conducted in Brazilian caves indicates that tourism and mining activities have the potential to alter habitats and compromise cave communities, making continuous monitoring of these environments and adopting preventive measures before significant impacts occur essential (Taylor et al. 2013; Cunha et al. 2020). In this sense, the proximity of the Vila Propício caves to areas of intense mining activity raises concerns about possible impacts on cave biodiversity, including myxomycetes.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AEE3E1CEC0A7505AA3980F3270358F84	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Moreira, Izabel Cristina;Cavalcanti, Laise de Holanda;Marley-Santos, Roberth Lopes;Leonardo-Silva, Lucas;de Lima, Luciene Araújo;Xavier-Santos, Solange	Moreira, Izabel Cristina, Cavalcanti, Laise de Holanda, Marley-Santos, Roberth Lopes, Leonardo-Silva, Lucas, de Lima, Luciene Araújo, Xavier-Santos, Solange (2026): First records of myxomycetes (Amebozoa, Eumycetozoa) in cave in Central Brazil. Subterranean Biology 57: 91-103, DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.57.193389
