Critical revision of Physarales and Reticulariales (Myxomycetes) at the Natural History Museum London (BM)
Author
Moreno, G.
0000-0002-9303-7181
Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida (Botánica), Universidad de Alcalá, 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid. Spain
gabriel.moreno@uah.es
Author
Castillo, A.
0000-0001-6308-5556
Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida (Botánica), Universidad de Alcalá, 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid. Spain
aurelio.castillo@uah.es
Author
Thüs, H.
0000-0002-8697-4572
Current Address: State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Germany & The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
holger.thues@smns-bw.de
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Phytotaxa
2024
2024-04-11
644
2
79
101
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.644.2.1
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.644.2.1
1179-3163
13214565
Reticularia jurana
Meyl. (1908: 297)
Material studied:—
NETHERLANDS
.
Doorwerth
, beech branch fallen,
13 Feb 1960
,
N.E. Nannenga-Bremekamp
, box B.M. 4079 [
BM001247526
], + one slide, s.n. [
BM001247536
].
IRELAND
. W. Galmay, Co.
Galway
,
5 Sept 1905
,
C. Torrend
, B.M. 2822 [
BM001247526
]
.
The specimen B.M. 4079 was collected and determined by Nannenga-Bremekamp as
Reticularia jurana
as noted on the herbarium label. However, specimen B.M. 2822, originally determined as
R. lycoperdon
was corrected by Nannnenga-Bremekamp in 1965 to
R. jurana
, as noted on the revision label.
Reticularia jurana
is characterised by an extensive pseudocapillitium varying from a network of thin filaments with irregular membranous expansions at the junctions to wider filaments with perforated plates. Although the original diagnosis describes the spores as 5–6, rarely 7 µm in diam., the specimens studied by us are somewhat larger (7.5 µm in diam.), in agreement with the observations of
Kowalski (1975)
. Additional data on its outer morphology and microscopic traits were added by
Nannenga-Bremekamp (1958)
.