Licea cf. erddigensis Ing, 1999

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 : 50

92. Licea cf. erddigensis Ing , Myxomycetes Britain and Ireland 48 (1999)

Specimens examined. PERU. Ancash: Yungay, Yungay, Huascaran N.P., Llanganuco sector, Abra Portachuelo, route AN-106, km 42, 4579 m, 9º02′38.5”S, 77º35′48.9”W, 19 Apr 2013, leaves of Senecio comosus, Lado 22794b (MA-Fungi 95007) . Apurimac: Abancay, Tamburco, Abancay, Ampay National Sanctuary, Angasqocha lagoon, 3271 m, 13º35′39”S, 72º52′50”W, 20 Apr 2016, wood, Lado 24598a (MA-Fungi 95874, USM) .

Notes. One of the larger species in the genus Licea (up to 0.8 mm in height) with a single peridium, irregular dehiscence, and a furrowed stalk that narrows at the apex. However, the spores in our collections are greyish brown by transmitted light instead of pale reddish-brown, as described in Ing (1999). In habit, it is similar to Licea floriformis var aureospora , but this species has bright yellow spores in mass and a double peridium. It could also be confused with Licea operculata (Wingate) G.W. Martin and Licea erecta K.S. Thind & Dhillon. Still , the mode of dehiscence in the former is through an operculum, and the peridium in the latter is double.