Prototrichia cf. metallica (Berk.) Massee, J. Roy. Microscop. Soc. London 1889

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 : 75

154. Prototrichia cf. metallica (Berk.) Massee, J. Roy. Microscop. Soc. London 1889 (3): 350 (1889)

Specimens examined. PERU. Ancash: Carhuaz, Shilla, Huascaran N.P., Punta Olímpica, route AN-107, km 40,500, 4325 m, 9º07′57.8”S, 77º31′45.0”W, 21 Apr 2013, branches of shrub, Lado 23025a (MA-Fungi 95192) . Arequipa: Arequipa, Chiguata, route PE-34C, 31 km east of Chiguata, 4075 m, 16º23′18.1”S, 71º18′59.9”W, 10 Oct 2012, branch of Senecio sp. , Lado 22306 (MA-Fungi 94837), Lado 22307 (MA-Fungi 94838), branch and leaves of Polylepis rugulosa, Lado 22322 (MA-Fungi 94852). Chiguata, route PE-34C, 31 km east of Chiguata , 4053 m, 16º23′35.6”S, 71º19′07.2”W, 10 Oct 2012, branches, leaves and bark of Polylepis rugulosa, Lado 22348 (MA-Fungi 94874) .

Notes. Uncertainty about the identity of the material studied comes from the bifurcations at the ends of the capillitium threads. Neither the descriptions nor the illustrations of the species mention or show this feature ( Poulain et al. 2011, Lado & Pando 1997), and they refer to simple ends.