Licea aurea D. Wrigley, Lado & Estrada, 2019

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 : 49

88. Licea aurea D. Wrigley, Lado & Estrada , in Wrigley de Basanta, Estrada-Torres & Lado, Phytotaxa 391(3):221 (2019)

Specimens examined. PERU. Arequipa: Caylloma, Chivay, route PE-1SE, km 60, 24 km south of Chivay , 4747 m, 15°42′41” S, 71°36′22” W, 9 Oct 2012, Azorella sp. leaf bases, (mc 9 Nov 2012, pH 7.43), dwb 3533, Azorella sp. leaf bases, (mc, 9 Nov 2012, pH 7.48), dwb 3534, Azorella sp. leaf bases, (mc, 12 Nov 2012, pH 7.53), dwb 3556, Azorella sp. leaf bases, (mc, 26 Sep 2013, pH 7.14), dwb 3615, Azorella sp. leaf bases, (mc, 26 Sep 2013, pH 7.05), dwb 3616, Azorella sp. leaf bases, (mc, 02 Oct 2013, pH 7.29), dwb 3617 Caylloma-Chivay community, route AR-109 towards Chivay, km 58, 4823 m, 15º44′00”S, 71º35′45”W, 23 Apr 2016, Azorella compacta , (mc, 19 Oct 2016, pH 6.61), dwb 3814: Chivay, Caylloma-Chivay community, route AR-109 towards Chivay, km 65, 4470 m, 15º42′01”S, 71º35′24”W, 23 Apr 2016, Azorella compacta , (mc, 20 Oct 2016, pH 7.38), dwb 3815 (MA-Fungi 91750) .

Notes. A tiny sessile species from the Andean Puna is found at almost 5,000 m. It can be distinguished ( Wrigley de Basanta et al. 2019) by its small size, golden colour, dehiscence into a few polygonal platelets, and smooth, thickwalled spores with a thinner area ( Figs. 3 H-I). These collections were included in the original description.

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FIGURE 3. A. Sporocarp of Comatricha nodulifera (MA-Fungi 94735). B. Craterium rubronodum (MA-Fungi 97247). C. Cribraria lepida (MA-Fungi 94606). D. Diachea mitchellii (MA-Fungi 96415). E. Spores by SEM of Diachea mitchellii (MA-Fungi 91227). F. Spores by SEM of Dianema succulenticola (MA-Fungi 94551). G. Sporocarp of Didymium xerophylum (MA-Fungi 86885). H. Licea aurea (MA-Fungi 91750). I. Spore by SEM of Licea aurea (dwb 3533). Scales A-D, G = 0.2 mm; E-F, I = 5 µm, H = 0.1 mm.