Licea kleistobolus G.W. Martin (1942: 702)

Bortnikov, Fedor M., Gmoshinskiy, Vladimir I. & Novozhilov, Yuri K., 2022, Species of Licea Schrad. (Myxomycetes) in Kedrovaya Pad State Nature Biosphere Reserve (Far East, Russia), including two new species, Phytotaxa 541 (1), pp. 21-48 : 29

Licea kleistobolus G.W. Martin (1942: 702) . Fig. 7 .

Material examined:— LOC 2 ( MYX 11292), LOC 17 (only record and photograph), LOC 24 ( MYX 11322), LOC 27 ( MYX 11319), LOC 28 ( MYX 11133) .

Habitat:—bark of living trees ( Abies holophylla , Chosenia arbutifolia and Pinus koraiensis ), pH: 4.06–6.94 (n = 5).

Notes:—Our specimens have all the typical features of this species: small sessile, round or oval when seen from above, sporocarps 80–105 μm in diameter with a noticeable operculum that has metallic sheen, an inner peridium with large rounded warts and elongated protuberances, and spores with groups of warts 8.9–10.7 μm in diameter ( Martin 1942; Martin & Alexopoulos 1969).

Figures

FIGURE 7. Licea kleistobolus (MYX 11133: b, c; MYX11319: a). a: Sporocarps. b: Spores and peridium by TL. c: Inner peridium and spores under SEM. d: Sporocarp under SEM. e: Fragment of operculum structure. f: Operculum margin. Scale bars: a = 100 µm, b, d = 20 µm, c, f = 5 µm, e = 2 µm.