New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts
New records of Australian Myxomycota
R. McHugh
Dublin Institute of Technology
Cathal Brugha St
Dublin 1, Ireland
S. L. Stephenson*
Department of Biology
Fairmont State College
Fairmont, West Virginia 26554, USA
Email: sstephenson@mail.fscwv.edu
*Author for correspondence
D. W. Mitchell
Walton Cottage
Upper Hartfield
Sussex, TN7 4AN, England
M. H. Brims
Western Australian Herbarium
George St
Kensington, WA 6157, Australia
Abstract Twenty-eight species of myxomycetes and other related organisms not previously known to occur in Australia are reported along with 78 new state records. Records were obtained from collections made in the field and from moist chamber cultures prepared with samples of various types of organic material known to support the growth of myxomycetes. The majority of these samples consisted of bark from living trees and shrubs but some samples of litter, both ground and aerial, and dung also were collected. Physarum crateriforme var. columellatum comb. et stat. nov. is proposed as a new name. The number of species recorded from the continent now stands at 177, which represents approximately 20% of the total number of world species.
Keywords Australia; distribution; myxomycetes; taxonomy
B02044 Received 4 June 2002; accepted 1 April 2003; online publication date 11 September 2003
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2003, Vol. 41: 487-500
0028-825X/03/4103-0487 $7.00 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2003
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