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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 : 70

138. Physarum cf. nicaraguense T. Macbr., Bull. Iowa Univ. Lab. Nat.Hist. 2(4): 382 (1893)

Specimens examined. PERU. Ancash: Recuay, Catac, Pachacoto , route AN- 1251, 10 km east of Pachacoto and 4 km west of National Park entrance, 4112 m, 9º53′14”S, 77º19′53”W, 14 May 2018, inflorescence of Puya raimondii, Lado 26684 (MA-Fungi 97458), Lado 26693 (MA-Fungi 97467) .

Notes. Similar to the typical form of the species, i.e., blackish stalk, multilobed sporotheca, and spores with prominent groups of warts. However, it differs in the total height of the sporocarps, 1.5– 2 mm in the material studied vs. 0.8–1.5 mm in the literature ( Lister 1925, Martin & Alexopoulos 1969, Poulain et al. 2011), and in the shape of the calcareous concretions of the capillitium, rounded in the Peruvian specimens, elongated and angular in the descriptions.