The type material in the David W. Mitchell myxomycete collection at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew Author Lado, Carlos 0000-0002-6135-2873 Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Plaza de Murillo 2, 28014 Madrid (Spain) Author Basanta, Diana Wrigley De 0000-0002-7700-8399 Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Plaza de Murillo 2, 28014 Madrid (Spain) text Phytotaxa 2024 2024-05-20 649 2 135 158 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.649.2.1 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.2.1 1179-3163 13215967 Echinostelium apitectum K.D. Whitney, Mycologia 72(5):954 (1980) Paratypus : USA . California , Lassen Co., Eagle Lake Field Station, on bark of Juniperus occidentalis in moist chamber, 23 May 1977 , K.D. Whitney 425, DWM 3648 [one slide, K-M001435048], ( Fig. 3M ). Notes. There are two boxes in BPI (BPI 819019, BPI 819026) labelled holotype . There is also an isotype in NY 00834471. The sample in the Mitchell collection is cited among the “collections examined” in the original publication of the species by Whitney (1980: 954).