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Treviño-Zevallos, Italo, García-Cunchillos, Iván, Basanta, Diana Wrigley De & Lado, Carlos, 2023, Diversity of Myxomycetes from Peru Part III: The high Andes and the altiplano, Phytotaxa 624 (1), pp. 1-92 : 49-50

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Specimens examined. PERU. Arequipa: Arequipa, Yura , Sumbay , Cañahuas , route PE-1SE, km 9, 4230 m, 15º59′13.2”S, 71º23′04.9”W, 9 Oct 2012, leaf litter of Baccharis tricuneata , Lado 22280c (MA-Fungi94817). Caylloma, Maca, A 34 Km west of Maca , 3422 m, 15°38′22”S, 71°47′53”W, 30 Dec 2018, on dead scape of Puya, Treviño Myx 596 (HSP). Ayacucho: Huamanga, Vinchos, route PE-28B, km 296, Casacancha, 4 km north of Arizona, 3451 m, 13º17′39”S, 74º19′29”W, 23 Apr 2017, branches of Baccharis sp. , Lado 25062b (MA-Fungi 96249). Lucanas, Santiago de Vado, route PE-30A, km 105, 3850 m, 14º38′24.3”S, 74º17′28.2”W, 27 Sep 2012, branches of Baccharis sp. , Lado 21824b (MA-Fungi 94596) . Abra Condorcenca, route PE-30A, km 99, 4130 m, 14º39′39.3”S, 74º18′43.1”W, 27 Sep 2012, branches of Baccharis sp. , Lado 21890f (MA-Fungi 94663), Lado 21891 (MA-Fungi 94664). Huancavelica: Castrovirreyna, Castrovirreyna , Pacococha lagoon, route PE-3A, km 80, to 10 km at NE de Castrovirreyna, 4410 m, 13º14′26.3”S, 75º17′04.6”W, 25 Sep 2012, branch of Asteraceae, Lado 21796c (MA-Fungi 94561), Lado 21803c (MA-Fungi 94570).

Notes. The Peruvian specimens show the morphology of the species L. biforis (laterally flattened plasmodiocarps and dehiscence by an apical split) but with larger spores (8–10 x 9–12 μm) and very faint dark incrustations on the inner side of the peridium, usually conspicuously marked.