Images of Myxomycetes

The illustrations of myxomycetes produced by Ruth McVaugh Allen for use in the classic monograph The Myxomycetes (G.W. Martin and C.J. Alexopoulos, 1969) are being made available on this website with the permission of the University of Iowa Press .

Click on a genus to go to a list of species. Names in brackets are those in current use, following Lado (2001).

Amaurochaete Rostaf.
Arcyodes O.F. Cook
Arcyria F.H. Wigg.
Badhamia Berk.
Barbeyella Meyl.
Brefeldia Rostaf.
Calomyxa Nieuwl.
Calonema Morgan
Ceratiomyxa J. Schröt.
Clastoderma A. Blytt
Colloderma G. Lister
Comatricha Preuss
Cornuvia Rostaf.
Craterium Trentep.
Cribraria Pers.
Diachea Fr.
Diacheopsis Meyl.
Dianema Rex
Dictydiaethalium Rostaf.
Diderma Pers.
Didymium Schrad.
Echinostelium de Bary
Elaeomyxa Hagelst.
Enerthenema Bowman
Fuligo Haller
Hemitrichia Rostaf.
Lamproderma Rostaf.
Leocarpus Link
Lepidoderma de Bary
Leptoderma G. Lister
Licea Schrad.
Lindbladia Fr.
Listerella E. Jahn
Lycogala Adans.
Macbrideola H.C. Gilbert
Metatrichia Ing
Minakatella G. Lister
Mucilago Battarra
Oligonema Rostaf.
Perichaena Fr.
Physarella Peck
Physarina Höhn.
Physarum Pers.
Prototrichia Rostaf.
Reticularia Bull.
Stemonitis Gled.
Trichia Haller
Tubifera J.F. Gmel.
Cienkowsicia Kuntze

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Amaurochaete comata G. Lister & Brândza
Amaurochaete ferruginea T. Macbr. & G.W. Martin [Symphytocarpus flaccidus (Lister) Ing & Nann.-Bremek]
Amaurochaete atra (Alb. & Schwein.) Rostaf.
Amaurochaete trechispora T. Macbr. & G.W. Martin
Amaurochaete tubulina (Alb. & Schwein.) T. Macbr.

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Arcyodes incarnata (Alb. & Schwein.) O.F. Cook

Arcyria annulifera G. Lister & Torrend
Arcyria carnea (G. Lister) G. Lister [Arcyria minuta Buchet]
Arcyria cinerea Fr.
Arcyria corymbosa M.L. Farr & G.W. Martin
Arcyria denudata (L.) Wettst.
Arcyria ferruginea Saut.
Arcyria glauca Lister
Arcyria globosa Schwein.
Arcyria incarnata (Pers. ex J.F. Gmel.) Pers.
Arcyria insignis Kalchbr. & Cooke
Arcyria leiocarpa G.W. Martin & Alexop. [Hemitrichia leiocarpa (Cooke) Lister]
Arcyria magna Rex
Arcyria nutans (Bull.) Grev. [Arcyria obvelata (Oeder) Onsberg]
Arcyria occidentalis (T. Macbr.) G. Lister
Arcyria oerstedtii Rostaf.
Arcyria pomiformis (Leers) Rostaf.
Arcyria stipata (Schwein.) Lister
Arcyria versicolor W. Phillips
Arcyria virescens G. Lister

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Badhamia affinis Rostaf.
Badhamia ainoae Yamash. [Badhamiopsis ainoae Yamash.]
Badhamia capsulifera (Bull.) Berk.
Badhamia dearnessii Hagelst. [Badhamia goniospora Meyl.]
Badhamia foliicola Lister
Badhamia gracilis (T. Macbr.) T. Macbr. [Badhamia melanospora Speg.]
Badhamia lilacina (Fr.) Rostaf.
Badhamia macrocarpa (Ces.) Rostaf.
Badhamia nitens Berk.
Badhamia obovata (Peck) S.J. Sm. [Craterium obovatum Peck]
Badhamia ovispora Racib.
Badhamia panicea (Fr.) Rostaf.
Badhamia papaveracea Berk. & Ravenel
Badhamia populina Lister & G. Lister
Badhamia utricularis (Bull.) Berk.
Badhamia versicolor Lister
Badhamia viridescens Meyl.

Barbeyella minutissima Meyl.

Brefeldia maxima (Fr.) Rostaf.

Calomyxa metallica (Berk.) Nieuwl.

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Calonema aureum Morgan

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa (O.F. Müll.) T. Macbr.
Ceratiomyxa morchella A.L. Welden
Ceratiomyxa sphaerosperma Boedijn

Cienkowskia reticulata (Alb. & Schwein.) Rostaf. [Willkommlangea reticulata (Alb. & Schwein.) Kuntze]

Clastoderma debaryanum A. Blytt

Colloderma oculatum (C. Lippert) G. Lister
Colloderma robustum Meyl.

Comatricha acanthodes Alexop. [Paradiacheopsis acanthodes (Alexop.) Nann.-Bremek.]
Comatricha aequalis Peck [Stemonitopsis aequalis (Peck) Y.Yamam.]
Comatricha aggregata M.L. Farr
Comatricha caespitosa Sturgis [Paradiachea caespitosa (Sturgis) Hertel ex H.Neubert, Nowotny & K.Baumann]
Comatricha cylindrica (Bilgram) T. Macbr. [Paradiachea cylindrica (Bilgram) Hertel ex H.Neubert, Nowotny & K.Baumann]
Comatricha elegans (Racib.) G. Lister
Comatricha fimbriata G. Lister & Cran [Paradiacheopsis fimbriata (G.Lister & Cran) Hertel ex Nann.-Bremek.]
Comatricha irregularis Rex [Stemonaria irregularis (Rex) Nann.-Bremek.]
Comatricha laxa Rostaf.
Comatricha longa Peck [Stemonaria longa (Peck) Nann.-Bremek., R. Sharma & Y. Yamam.]
Comatricha longipila Nann. -Bremek.
Comatricha lurida Lister [Collaria lurida (Lister) Nann.-Bremek.]
Comatricha mirabilis R.K. Benj. & Poitras
Comatricha nigra (Pers. ex J.F. Gmel.) J. Schröt.
Comatricha pulchella (C. Bab.) Rostaf.
Comatricha dictyospora L.F. Celak
Comatricha rispaudii Hagelst. [Paradiachea rispaudii (Hagelst.) Hertel ex H.Neubert, Nowotny & K. Baumann]
Comatricha rubens Lister [Collaria rubens (Lister) Nann.-Bremek.]
Comatricha subcaespitosa Peck [Stemonitopsis subcaespitosa (Peck) Nann.-Bremek.]
Comatricha suksdorfii Ellis & Everh.
Comatricha tenerrima (M.A. Curtis) G. Lister
Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rostaf. [Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek.]

Cornuvia serpula (Wigand) Rostaf.

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Craterium aureum (Schumach.) Rostaf.
Craterium concinnum Rex
Craterium leucocephalum Desm.
Craterium minutum (Leers) Fr.
Craterium paraguayense (Speg.) G. Lister

Cribraria argillacea (Pers. ex J.F. Gmel.) Pers.
Cribraria atrofusca G.W. Martin & Lovejoy
Cribraria aurantiaca Schrad.
Cribraria dictyospora G.W. Martin & Lovejoy
Cribraria elegans Berk. & M.A. Curtis
Cribraria ferruginea Meyl.
Cribraria languescens Rex
Cribraria laxa Hagelst.
Cribraria lepida Meyl.
Cribraria macrocarpa Schrad.
Cribraria microcarpa (Schrad.) Pers.
Cribraria minutissima Schwein.
Cribraria oregana H.C. Gilbert
Cribraria piriformis Schrad.
Cribraria purpurea Schrad.
Cribraria rubiginosa Fr.
Cribraria rufa (Roth) Rostaf.
Cribraria splendens (Schrad.) Pers.
Cribraria tenella Schrad.
Cribraria violacea Rex

Diachea bulbillosa (Berk. & Broome) Lister
Diachea leucopodia (Bull.) Rostaf.
Diachea radiata G. Lister & Petch
Diachea splendens Racib.
Diachea subsessilis Peck
Diachea thomasii Rex

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Dianema corticatum Lister
Dianema depressa (Lister) Lister

Dictydiaethalium plumbeum (Schumach.) Rostaf.

Dictydium cancellatum (Batsch) T. Macbr. [Cribraria cancellata (Batsch) Nann.-Bremek.]
Dictydium mirabile (Rostaf.) Meyl. [Cribraria mirabilis (Rostaf.) Massee]
Dictydium rutilum G. Lister [Cribraria rutila (G. Lister) Nann.-Bremek.]

Diderma alpinum (Meyl.) Meyl.
Diderma asteroides (Lister & G. Lister) G. Lister
Diderma chondrioderma (de Bary & Rostaf.) G. Lister
Diderma cinereum Morgan
Diderma cor-rubrum T. Macbr.
Diderma crustaceum Peck
Diderma darjeelingense K.S. Thind & H.S. Sehgal
Diderma deplanatum Fr.
Diderma effusum (Schwein.) Morgan
Diderma floriforme (Bull.) Pers.
Diderma globosum Pers.
Diderma hemisphaericum (Bull.) Hornem.
Diderma indicum K.S. Thind & H.S. Sehgal
Diderma lucidum Berk. & Broome
Diderma lyallii (Massee) T. Macbr. [Diderma fallax (Rostaf.) Lado]
Diderma montanum (Meyl.) Meyl.
Diderma mussooriense K. S. Thind & Manocha
Diderma niveum (Rostaf.) T. Macbr.
Diderma ochraceum Hoffm.
Diderma radiatum (L.) Morgan
Diderma roanense (Rex) T. Macbr.
Diderma rugosum (Rex) T. Macbr.
Diderma simplex (J. Schröt.) G. Lister
Diderma spumarioides (Fr.) Fr.
Diderma subdictyospermum (Rostaf.) G. Lister
Diderma testaceum (Schrad.) Pers.
Diderma travelyani (Grev.) Fr. [Lepidoderma trevelyanii (Grev.) Poulain & Mar.Mey.]

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Didymium anellus Morgan
Didymium clavus (Alb. & Schwein.) Rabenh.
Didymium crustaceum Fr.
Didymium decipiens Meyl.
Didymium difforme (Pers.) Gray
Didymium dubium Rostaf.
Didymium flexuosum Yamash.
Didymium floccosum G.W. Martin, K.S. Thind & Rehill
Didymium fulvum Sturgis [Didymium obducens P.Karst.]
Didymium intermedium J.Schröt.
Didymium iridis (Ditmar) Fr.
Didymium laxifila G. Lister & J.Ross
Didymium leoninum Berk. & Broome
Didymium listeri Massee
Didymium melanospermum (Pers.) T. Macbr.
Didymium megalosporum Berk. & M.A. Curtis
Didymium minus (Lister) Morgan
Didymium nigripes (Link) Fr.
Didymium ochroideum G.Lister
Didymium ovoideum Nann.-Bremek.
Didymium perforatum Yamash.
Didymium quitense (Pat.) Torrend
Didymium serpula Fr.
Didymium squamulosum (Alb. & Schwein.) Fr.
Didymium sturgisii Hagelst.
Didymium trachysporum G.Lister
Didymium vaccinum (Durieu & Mont.) Buchet
Didymium verrucosporum A.L. Welden

Echinostelium cribrarioides Alexop.
Echinostelium elachiston Alexop.
Echinostelium fragile Nann.-Bremek
Echinostelium minutum de Bary

Elaeomyxa cerifera (G. Lister) Hagelst.
Elaeomyxa miyazakiensis (Emoto) Hagelst.

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Enerthenema berkeleyanum Rostaf.
Enerthenema melanospermum T. Macbr. & G.W. Martin
Enerthenema papillatum (Pers.) Rostaf.

Erionema aureum Penz. [Fuligo aurea (Penz.) Y.Yamam.]

Fuligo cinerea (Schwein.) Morgan
Fuligo intermedia T. Macbr.
Fuligo megaspora Sturgis
Fuligo muscorum Alb. & Schwein.
Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg.

Hemitrichia abietina (Wigand) G. Lister
Hemitrichia chrysospora (Lister) Lister
Hemitrichia clavata (Pers.) Rostaf.
Hemitrichia intorta (Lister) Lister
Hemitrichia karstenii (Rostaf.) Lister [Trichia contorta (Ditmar) Rostaf.]
Hemitrichia montana (Morgan) T. Macbr.
Hemitrichia paragoga M.L. Farr
Hemitrichia serpula (Scop.) Rostaf. ex Lister
Hemitrichia stipata (Schwein.) T. Macbr. [Arcyria stipata (Schwein.) Lister]

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Lamproderma arcyrioides (Sommerf.) Rostaf.
Lamproderma arcyrionema Rostaf. [Collaria arcyrionema (Rostaf.) Nann.-Bremek. ex Lado]
Lamproderma atrosporum Meyl. [Lamproderma carestiae (Ces. & De Not.) Meyl.]
Lamproderma carestiae (Ces. & De Not.) Meyl.
Lamproderma columbinum (Pers.) Rostaf.
Lamproderma cribrarioides (Fr.) R.E.Fr.
Lamproderma cristatum Meyl.
Lamproderma echinulatum (Berk.) Rostaf.
Lamproderma guliemae Meyl.
Lamproderma muscorum (Lév.) Hagelst.
Lamproderma pulchellum Meyl.
Lamproderma sauteri Rostaf.
Lamproderma scintillans (Berk. & Broome) Morgan
Lamproderma verrucosum G.W. Martin, K.S. Thind & Sohi

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Leocarpus fragilis (Dicks.) Rostaf.

Lepidoderma carestianum (Rabenh.) Rostaf.
Lepidoderma chailletii Rostaf.
Lepidoderma granuliferum (W. Phillips) R.E.Fr.
Lepidoderma tigrinum (Schrad.) Rostaf.

Leptoderma iridescens G. Lister

Licea biforis Morgan
Licea castanea G. Lister
Licea fimicola Dearn. & Bisby [Kelleromyxa fimicola (Dearn & Bisby) Eliasson]
Licea kleistobolus G.W. Martin
Licea minima Fr.
Licea operculata (Wingate) G.W. Martin
Licea parasitica (Zukal) G.W. Martin
Licea pedicellata (H.C. Gilbert) H.C. Gilbert
Licea pumila G.W. Martin & R.M. Allen
Licea pusilla Schrad.
Licea tenera E. Jahn
Licea tuberculata G.W. Martin
Licea variablilis Schrad.

Lindbladia tubulina Fr.

Listerella paradoxa E. Jahn

Lycogala conicum Pers.
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr.
Lycogala exiguum Morgan
Lycogala flavofuscum (Ehrenb.) Rostaf.

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Macbrideola decapillata H.C. Gilbert
Macbrideola decapillata H.C. Gilbert
Macbrideola martinii (Alexop. & Beneke) Alexop.
Macbrideola synsoporos (Alexop.) Alexop.
Macbrideola scintillans H.C. Gilbert

Metatrichia vesparium (Batsch) Nann. -Bremek. ex G.W. Martin & Alexop.

Mucilago crustacea F.H. Wigg.

Oligonema flavidum (Peck) Peck
Oligonema fulvum Morgan
Oligonema schweinitzii (Berk.) G.W. Martin

Perichaena chrysosperma (Curr.) Lister
Perichaena corticalis (Batsch) Rostaf.
Perichaena depressa Lib.
Perichaena microspora Penz. & Lister
Perichaena minor (G. Lister) Hagelst. [Hemitrichia minor G.Lister]
Perichaena syncarpon T.E. Brooks
Perichaena vermicularis (Schwein.) Rostaf.

Physarella oblonga (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Morgan

Physarina echinospora K.S. Thind & Manocha

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Physarum aeneum (Lister) R.E.Fr.
Physarum albescens Ellis ex T. Macbr.
Physarum alpinum (Lister & G. Lister) G. Lister
Physarum auripigmentum G.W. Martin
Physarum auriscalpium Cooke
Physarum bethelii T. Macbr. ex G. Lister
Physarum bilgramii Hagelst. [Physarum globuliferum (Bull.) Pers.]
Physarum bitectum G. Lister
Physarum bivalve Pers.
Physarum bogoriense Racib.
Physarum braunianum de Bary
Physarum brunncolum (W. Phillips) Massee
Physarum carneum G. Lister & Sturgis
Physarum cinereum (Batsch) Pers.
Physarum citrinum Schumach.
Physarum compressum Alb. & Schwein.
Physarum confertum T. Macbr.
Physarum contextum (Pers.) Pers.
Physarum crateriforme Petch
Physarum decipiens M.A. Curtis
Physarum dictyosporum G.W. Martin
Physarum diderma Rostaf.
Physarum didermoides (Pers.) Rostaf.
Physarum digitatum G. Lister & Farquharson
Physarum echinosporum Lister
Physarum flavicomum Berk.
Physarum flavidum (Peck) Peck
Physarum galbeum Wingate
Physarum globuliferum (Bull.) Pers.
Physarum gyrosum Rostaf.
Physarum javanicum Racib.
Physarum lateritium (Berk. & Ravenel) Morgan
Physarum leucophaeum Fr.
Physarum leucopus Link
Physarum listeri T. Macbr. [Physarum schroeteri Rostaf.]
Physarum lutescens Peck
Physarum megalosporum T. Macbr.
Physarum melleum (Berk. & Broome) Massee
Physarum mennegae Nann.-Bremek.
Physarum mortoni T. Macbr.
Physarum murinum Lister
Physarum mutabile (Rostaf.) G. Lister
Physarum nicaraguense T. Macbr.
Physarum notabile T. Macbr.
Physarum nucleatum Rex
Physarum nudum T. Macbr.
Physarum nutans Pers. [Physarum album (Bull.) Chevall.]
Physarum oblatum T. Macbr.
Physarum ovisporum G. Lister
Physarum penetrale Rex
Physarum pezizoideum (Jungh.) Pavill. & Lagarde
Physarum polycephalum Schwein.
Physarum psittacinum Ditmar
Physarum pulcherrimum Berk. & Ravenel
Physarum pulcherripes Peck
Physarum pusillum (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) G. Lister
Physarum retisporum G.W. Martin, K.S. Thind & Rehill
Physarum roseum Berk. & Broome
Physarum rubiginosum Fr.
Physarum rubronodum G.W. Martin [Physarum albescens Ellis ex T. Macbr.]
Physarum serpula Morgan
Physarum spinulosum K.S. Thind & H.S. Sehgal [Physarum tessellatum G.W. Martin & M.L. Farr]
Physarum stellatum (Massee) G.W. Martin
Physarum straminipes Lister
Physarum sulphureum Sturgis ex G. Lister
Physarum superbum Hagelst.
Physarum tenerum Rex
Physarum tessellatum G.W. Martin & M.L. Farr
Physarum tropicale T. Macbr.
Physarum vernum Sommerf.
Physarum virescens Ditmar
Physarum viride (Bull.) Pers.

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Prototrichia metallica (Berk.) Massee

Reticularia intermedia Nann.-Bremek.
Reticularia jurana Meyl.
Reticularia lobata Lister
Reticularia lycoperdon Bull.
Reticularia olivacea (Ehrenb.) Fr.
Reticularia splendens Morgan

Schenella microspora G.W. Martin
Schenella simplex T. Macbr.

Stemonitis axifera (Bull.) T. Macbr.
Stemonitis confluens Cooke & Ellis [Symphytocarpus confluens (Cooke & Ellis) Ing & Nann.-Bremek.]
Stemonitis flavogenita E. Jahn
Stemonitis fusca Roth
Stemonitis herbatica Peck
Stemonitis hyperopta Meyl. [Stemonitopsis hyperopta (Meyl.) Nann.-Bremek.]
Stemonitis mussooriensis G.W. Martin, K.S. Thind & Sohi
Stemonitis nigrescens Rex [Stemonitis fusca Roth]
Stemonitis pallida Wingate
Stemonitis smithii T. Macbr. [Stemonitis axifera (Bull.) T. Macbr.]
Stemonitis splendens Rostaf.
Stemonitis trechispora (Berk. ex Torrend) T. Macbr. [Symphytocarpus trechisporus (Torrend) Nann.-Bremek.]
Stemonitis uvifera T. Macbr.
Stemonitis virginiensis Rex

Trichia alpina (R.E. Fr.) Meyl.
Trichia botrytis (J.F. Gmel.) Pers.
Trichia contorta (Ditmar) Rostaf.
Trichia crateriformis G.W. Martin
Trichia decipiens (Pers.) T. Macbr.
Trichia erecta Rex
Trichia favoginea (Batsch) Pers.
Trichia floriformis (Schwein.) G. Lister [Metatrichia floriformis (Schwein.) Nann.-Bremek.]
Trichia lutescens (Lister) Lister
Trichia macbridei M. Peck apud Peck & H.C. Gilbert
Trichia scabra Rostaf.
Trichia subfusca Rex
Trichia varia (Pers. ex J.F. Gmel.) Pers.
Trichia verrucosa Berk.

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Tubifera bombarda (Berk. & Broome) G.W. Martin [Tubulifera bombarda (Berk. & Broome) Lado]
Tubifera casparyi (Rostaf.) T. Macbr. [Tubulifera casparyi (Rostaf.) Lado]
Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) J.F.Gmel. [Tubulifera arachnoidea Jacq.]
Tubifera microsperma (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) G.W. Martin [Tubulifera microsperma (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Lado]
Tubifera papillata G.W. Martin, K.S. Thind & Sohi [Tubulifera papillata (G.W. Martin, K.S. Thind & Sohi) Lado]

Wilczekia evelinae Meyl. [Diderma evelinae (Meyl.) Kowalski]

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