Notes on Slime Molds from Changhua County, Taiwan (II)

Abstract

In continuation of the investigation on the slime molds of Changhua County, 16 additional taxa hitherto unknown from this area are reported. Among them Physarum lakhanpalii and Stemonitis emotoi are new to Taiwan. A reappraisal of the record of P. auriscalpium in Taiwan reveals that the voucher specimen represents an additional record of P. lakhanpalii. The name P. auriscalpium should be excluded from the myxomycete biota of Taiwan for now. The remaining 14 taxa are: Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa, Collaria elegans, Cribraria violacea, Didymium clavus, Fuligo septica, F. cf. septica, Hemitrichia clavata var. calyculata, Licea bforis, Pertchaena depressa, Physarum compressum, P. craterforme, P. nutans, Stemonitis flavogenita, and S. virginiensis. New collections of Craterium leucocephalum, Cribraria confusa, Diachea leucopodia, Diderma hem isphaericum var. hem isphaericum, Echinostelium minutum, Lamproderma scintillans, Physarella oblonga fo. oblonga, Physarum bivalve, and P. pusillum are also listed. Up to now a total of 20 genera, 41 species of slime molds have been recorded in Changhua County.