Physarum hongkongense Chao H. Chung, Slime Moulds

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 : 68

130. * Physarum hongkongense Chao H. Chung, Slime Moulds Hong Kong 19 (1997)

Specimens examined. PERU. Ancash: Asunción, Chacas, route AN-107, km 75, 3332 m, 9º09′39”S, 77º23′05”W, 10 May 2018, bark of Eucalyptus globulus, Lado 26247 (MA-Fungi 97049). Chacas, Huaillín, route AN-107, km 70, 3417 m, 9º10′52”S, 77º25′25”W, 10 May 2018, leaves of Puya sp. leaf litter, Lado 26251 (MA-Fungi 97053, USM), Lado 26252 (MA-Fungi 97054). Bolognesi, trail to Pampam town , Aynin bridge, route PE-3N, km 459, 3089 m, 10º07′30”S, 77º09′28”W, 20 May 2014, branches of Baccharis sp. , Lado 23656b (MA-Fungi 95333). Recuay, Catac, route AN-110, km 11, 3865 m, 9º44′57”S, 77º22′48”W, 24 May 2014, leaf litter of Buddleja sp. , Lado 23887 (MAFungi 95535) .

Notes. This species develops laterally compressed plasmodiocarps, triple peridium, and dehiscence along an apical longitudinal line. Due to its colour, this species may resemble Ph. bogoriense but differ by the not laterally compressed plasmodiocarps and the triangular reflex lobules of the peridium after dehiscence.