Typification of the myxomycete taxa described by the Listers and preserved at the Natural History Museum, London (BM) Author Lado, Carlos Real Jardín Botánico (CSIC), Plaza de Murillo, 2. 28014 Madrid (Spain) Author Basanta, Diana Wrigley De Real Jardín Botánico (CSIC), Plaza de Murillo, 2. 28014 Madrid (Spain) & 39, Madeley Drive, West Kirby, Wirral, CH 48 3 LB, UK * Corresponding author e-mail: lado @ rjb. csic. es & Real Jardín Botánico (CSIC), Plaza de Murillo, 2. 28014 Madrid (Spain) lado@rjb.csic.es text Phytotaxa 2018 2018-03-02 341 1 448 450 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.341.1.1 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.341.1.1 1179-3163 13719359 Licea castanea G. Lister, J. Bot. 49: 61. 1911 — Lectotypus (designated here) : UNITED KINGDOM . Scotland , Aberdeen , Lesmoir , 57.1526ºN 2.1100ºW , Nov 1911 , W . Cran ( BM 3025 !, BM001089212 + two slides BM s.n.!, 3, BM001223777 , BM001223778 ). [In the same box there are two other collections from other dates so not type material] . [BM] 3025 / Licea castanea G. Lister / obscura Cran/ Lesmoir, 11.10, W. Cran/ NXXIX.126/ BM001089212 [On the same box there are two other collections from other dates but not original material “Skene 11.12. with T. contorta XXXIV. 9” and “Den of Craig. 11.16 N 38.80”] + two slides (BM s.n., and 3)/ obscura/ Licea / castanea/ G. Lister/ Lesmoir/ Aberdeen . 11.10/ Rev. W. Cran/ NXXIX.126/ BM001223777, BM001223778. NOTES: G.Lister (1911: 61) commented “This species was discovered in November, 1910, by the Rev. W. Cran at Lesmoir , Aberdeenshire , where it occurred on moss growing on the bark of Pyrus Aucuparia and also on the bark itself.” In BM there is one box ( BM 3025 ) with three fragments of material, each from a different place and date. We designate the fragment of the left bottom corner, (Lesmoir, 11.11, W . Cran) as the lectotype . The other fragments are from dates later than the publication. Illustrations and notes are in notebook XXIX: 126–127 .