Echinostelium paucifilum K.D. Whitney, Mycologia

Lado, Carlos & Basanta, Diana Wrigley De, 2024, The type material in the David W. Mitchell myxomycete collection at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, Phytotaxa 649 (2), pp. 135-158 : 147-149

Echinostelium paucifilum K.D. Whitney, Mycologia 72(5):974 (1980)

Isotypus: USA. California, Lassen Co., State Highway 139, 11 miles N of Susanville, on bark of Juniperus occidentalis in moist chamber, 16 Jul 1977, leg. K.D. Whitney 657, DWM 3771 [one slide, K-M001435036], ( Fig. 4D ).

Paratypus: USA. California, Lassen Co., 0.5 miles NE of Eagle Lake Field Station, on bark of Juniperus occidentalis in moist chamber, 18 Jul 1977, leg. K.D. Whitney 665, DWM 3651 [one slide, K-M001435034], ( Fig. 4D ).

Notes. Two slides, an isotype and a paratype, of this minute species are in the Mitchell collection. The holotype is in BPI 819062, and there are two isotypes in BPI 819056 and NY 00834478.

* Echinostelium vanderpoelii Nann. -Bremek., D.W. Mitch., T.N. Lakh. & R.K. Chopra, Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. 94(3):411 (1991)

Paratypus: AUSTRALIA. Tasmania, Cole’s Bay, near Bicheno, culture of Paper Bark Gum, 13 Mar 1975, leg. D.W. Mitchell, DWM 1863 [one slide, K-M001435030], ( Fig. 4E ).

Notes. This is one of the samples mentioned when Nannenga-Bremekamp et al. (1991: 412) described the species. There is another slide of the same collection deposited in Nannenga Bremekamp’s collection no. 9343. The species is currently considered ( Pando 1997) to be a synonym of E. apitectum K.D. Whitney.

Lamproderma cacographicum Bozonnet, Mar. Mey. & Poulain, Bull. Féd. Mycol. Dauphiné-Savoie 37(144):117 (1997)

Isotypus: FRANCE. Savoie, Val-d’Isère (73), 1900 m, on twigs of living shrubs ( Rhododendron ferrugineum and Salix sp. ) near melting snow, 5 Jun 1993, leg. F. Meyer, M. Meyer 13526, DWM 5336 [one box, K-M001435022], ( Fig. 4F ).

Notes. The material in Mitchell’s collection is a fragment of the holotype conserved in BR5020057700826.

Figures

FIGURE 4. A–M. Photographs of type material from Echinostelium coelocephalum to Licea eremophila.