Licea biforis Morgan (1893: 131)

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 : 27

Licea biforis Morgan (1893: 131) . Fig. 4 .

Habitat:—bark of living trees ( Betula cf. lanata , Tilia amurensis ), pH: 5.30–5.75 (n = 2).

Material examined:— LOC 14 (the herbarium specimen is absent, since it was recorded only on the basis of sporocarp photographs which clear show all typical morphological features of this species), LOC 23 ( MYX 10115) .

Notes:—This species is easily distinguished by its elongated sessile sporocarps, which dehisce in two halves along the apical longitudinal line, and, globose to oval light yellow verruculose spores 10.1–14.3 µm in diameter.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Licea biforis (MYX10115: a, b; specimen recorded only by photo: c). a–b: Sporocarps. c: Spores by TL. Scale bars: a, b = 100 µm, c = 20 µm.