Calomyxa Nieuwl. 1916

Details

Name scientific

Calomyxa Nieuwl., Amer. Midl. Naturalist 4 335 (1916)

Preferred name

Calomyxa Nieuwl. 1916

Taxonomy reference

LEONTYEV, DMITRY V.; SCHNITTLER, MARTIN; STEPHENSON, STEVEN L.; NOVOZHILOV, YURI K.; SHCHEPIN, OLEG N. 2019: Towards a phylogenetic classification of the Myxomycetes. Phytotaxa 399(3): 209.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Nieuwl.

Authors

Nieuwl.

Publication place

Nieuwland, J.A. 1916: American Midland Naturalist 4

Year published

1916

Publication page

335

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Calomyxa Nieuwl. 1916

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Calomyxa

Classification

Kingdom

Protozoa

Phylum

Eumycetozoa

Class

Myxomycetes

Order

Trichiales

Family

Dianemataceae

Genus

Calomyxa

Subordinates

Calomyxa metallica

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Calomyxa Nieuwl. 1916

Notes

Fruiting body a sessile sporangium. One species in New Zealand.

Note that only those species listed below have images or descriptions available through the Virtual Mycota.

Stephenson, S.L. 2003: Myxomycetes of New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. 3. Fungal Diversity Press.

Calomyxa Nieuwl. 1916

Description

Fruiting body a sessile or subsessile sporangium or a plasmodiocarp, globose to pulvinate. Peridium single, membranous, translucent or occasionally encrusted with granular material. Capillitium consisting of long, slender, coiled or flexuous, solid, minutely tuberculate filaments attached basally and, infrequently, to the peridium.
The genus Calomyxa contains two species (Lado 2001), one of which is known from New Zealand.