Cribraria spinispora Lado & D. Wrigley, 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 : 19

35. Cribraria spinispora Lado & D. Wrigley , in Lado, Wrigley de Basanta, Estrada-Torres, Stephenson & Treviño, Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 76(2): e083, pag. 8 (2019)

Specimens examined. PERU. Ancash: Huari, Huanchac Ecological Center, Huari , 3230 m, 9º21′57”S, 77º10′02”W, 21 May 2014, leaf of Agave americana, Lado 23718c (MA-Fungi 95385). Recuay, Catac, Pachacoto, route AN- 1251, 4 km east of Pachacoto , 3859 m, 9º52′09”S, 77º22′25”W, 14 May 2018, leaves of Puya sp. , Lado 26727b (MA-Fungi 97497) . Arequipa: Caylloma, Maca, A 34 Km west of Maca , 3422 m, 15°38′22”S, 71°47′53”W, 30 Dec 2018, on dead scape of Puya, Treviño Myx 594 (HSP) .

Notes. For the first time detected in the field, the species’ fruiting bodies were previously only recorded in moist chamber cultures from Moquegua ( Peru) (see Lado et al. 2019). Cribraria spinispora can be differentiated from other violaceous species by the 9–11 µm in diam., angular or polygonal, warted spores, vs. globose to subglobose spores less than 8 µm diam in Cribraria violacea and C. lepida .