Dianema succulenticola Lado, Estrada & D. Wrigley, 2013

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 : 20

40. * Dianema succulenticola Lado, Estrada & D. Wrigley , in Lado, Wrigley de Basanta, Estrada-Torres & Stephenson, Fungal Diversity 59: 13 (2013)

Specimen examined. PERU. Huancavelica: Tayacaja, Huando , 4 km at SE of Izcuchaca, 3035 m, 12º30′34.9”S, 74º58′42.8”W, 24 Sep 2012, debris of Cactaceae, Lado 21786 (MA-Fungi 94551) .

Notes. This species is characterized by its densely baculate spores ( Fig. 3F ). Previously known only from arid areas of Chile, on decayed cacti ( Eulychnia sp. and Echinopsis chiloensis ), between 500- 1,300 m elevation ( Lado et al. 2013). In Peru, it was found at more than 3,000 m elevation, also in decayed cacti.

Figures

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.