Physarum florigerum (Meyl.) Y. Yamam., Hikobia

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 : 67

126. º Physarum florigerum (Meyl.) Y. Yamam., Hikobia 11(4): 528 (1994)

Specimen examined. PERU. Cusco: Anta, Chinchaypujio, Parccotica , Chinchipuya , Km 8,650, 3608 m, 13º34′07”S, 72º14′27”W, 17 Apr 2016, wood, Lado 24445 (MA-Fungi 95784, USM) .

Notes. Physarum florigerum has an orange-yellow pseudocolumella in the centre of the sporotheca and petaloid dehiscence of the peridium. It resembles Ph. viride , but this species lacks a columella.

They were previously known from the Seychelles Islands ( Kryvomaz et al. 2020), Japan ( Takahashi et al. 2022) and U.S. A ( GBIF 2022). Its presence in the Neotropics is confirmed since it was previously reported for Venezuela but with an uncertain identification. In Peru, it was found in the department of Cusco, inhabiting the woody remains of trees associated with crops.