Comatricha pulchelloides Nann.

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 : 15

25. * Comatricha pulchelloides Nann. -Bremek., Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch., C. 88(1): 125 (1985)

Specimen examined. PERU. Arequipa: Caylloma, Tuti, course to Tisco , 4196 m, 15°33′11”S, 71°34′16”W, 27 May 2017, on leaf litter of Baccharis sp. and Poaceae debris, Treviño Myx 88 (MA-Fungi 97923, HSP) .

Notes. Macroscopically, it is similar to C. pulchella , differing by its looped capillitium in the periphery. It also may resemble Comatricha longipila Nann. -Bremek., but the spores are larger at 8-9 µm diam. vs. 6–7 µm in C. longipila ( Nannenga-Bremekamp 1991) .