A new species of the genus Cribraria (Myxomycetes) with violet spores

V. I. Gmoshinskiy, V. N. Botyakov, Yu. K. Novozhilov

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31111/nsnr/2025.59.2.F1

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Abstract

A new species of Cribraria, described herein as С. arachnoidea, was discovered in the southern part of European Russia (the village of Kanevskaya in the Krasnodar Territory). The two specimens upon which the new species is based were obtained in moist chamber cultures, and the sporocarps developed on the dead wood of undetermined deciduous trees. The sporocarps and spores were examined by light and scanning electron microscopy. The main diagnostic morphological characters of Cribraria arachnoidea are the deep violet color of the small sporocarps, relatively short stalk (no more than twice the diameter of the sporotheca), small calyculus, irregular and flat nodes of the peridial net, and the angular spores. Micrographs of all relevant features are presented.

Keywords: Amoebozoa, anthropogenic landscape, lignicolous species, moist chamber culture, morphology, slime moulds, taxonomy, Krasnodar Territory, Russia

Section: Fungi

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Gmoshinskiy V. I., Botyakov V. N., Novozhilov Yu. K. 2025. A new species of the genus Cribraria (Myxomycetes) with violet spores. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii 59(2): F1–F7. https://doi.org/10.31111/nsnr/2025.59.2.F1

Received: 22 February 2025. Accepted: 20 June 2025. Published: 3 July 2025

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