Chondrioderma asteroides Lister & G. Lister, J. Bot.

Lado, Carlos & Basanta, Diana Wrigley De, 2018, Typification of the myxomycete taxa described by the Listers and preserved at the Natural History Museum, London (BM), Phytotaxa 341 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

Chondrioderma asteroides Lister & G. Lister, J. Bot. 40: 209. 1902

≡ Diderma asteroides (Lister & G. Lister) G. Lister , in Lister, Monogr. mycetozoa, ed. 2, 113. 1911

— Lectotypus (designated here): ITALY. Ventimiglia, La Mortola, 43º46’N 7º33’E, Jan 1902, Agnes Fry, ( BM 1971 !, BM001095268 + one dry mount L:B.M.62 B!, engraved 881, BM001223772 ) . Syntypus: ITALY. Ventimiglia, La Mortola, 43º46’N 7º33’E, 24 Jan 1902, Agnes Fry (two slides, BM s.n.!, 1, BM001223774 , and 2, BM001223773 ) .

[BM] 1971 / Diderma (Chondrioderma) asteroides List / La Mortola, Ventimiglia/ leg. Mis Agnes Fry 24.1.02/ Jl. of Boty Vol 40 p 209/ BM001095268 [sheet label dated 27 OCT. 1904] + one dry mount L:B.M.62 B engraved 881/ Chondrioderma / asteroides List. / Journ. Bot. 6.02 p 209/ La Mortola,/ Ventimiglia 1. 1902/ Miss Agnes Fry leg./ BM001223772. BM s.n. two slides 1, 2/ Chondrioderma / asteroides G.L./ La Mortola 24.1.02/ Agnes Fry/ N.XXp.2./ BM001223774, BM001223773.

NOTES: In the description of this species Lister & G. Lister (1902: 209) wrote “In January, 1902, Miss Agnes Fry collected a number of species of Mycetozoa in the grounds of Sir Thos. Hanbury, La Mortola, Ventimiglia, and she kindly sent us the fruits of her search for examination. Among them is a species of Chondrioderma with characters unlike those of any other of the genus with which we are aequainted”. In BM there is a box (BM 1971) and a slide (L:B.M.62 B) with a clear reference to the publication and data that coincide with what was written above, so this was chosen as the lectotype. There is also a handwritten note by Lister in his personal copy of the first edition of his monograph with the reference L:B.M.62 B. There are two other slides (1, 2) with the same data but no other numbers, and a reference to notebook XX: 2 (this notebook was unfortunately not located at the time we were there). There is also a box (BM 2370) with material from the same locality but dated “1.03”, a year after the publication of the species. On the same box label another sample from another locality is added and typewritten on the herbarium sheet is the mention of a duplicate removed from this box to a different sheet.