Reticularia lobata Lister (1894: 161)

Moreno, G., Castillo, A. & Thüs, H., 2024, Critical revision of Physarales and Reticulariales (Myxomycetes) at the Natural History Museum London (BM), Phytotaxa 644 (2), pp. 79-101 : 99

Reticularia lobata Lister (1894: 161)

≡ Liceopsis lobata (Lister) Torrend (1908: 63)

≡ Enteridium lobatum (Lister) M.L. Farr (1976: 514)

Lectotype (designated by Lado & Wrigley de Basanta 2018) UNITED KINGDOM. England: Essex, Wanstead Park , 51.5676ºN 0.0403ºE, Jul 1887, A. Lister (two slides, a dry mount L:B.M.132, engraved 565 [ BM001089185 ] + one slide B.M. „1“ [ BM001247107 !]. Studied syntypes:— UNITED KINGDOM. England: Berkshire, Wokingham, 51.410ºN 0.840ºW, 14 Aug 1892, A. Lister, B.M. 1448 [ BM001089724 !], + one slide, s.n. [ BM001247538 !]. — UNITED KINGDOM. England: Berkshire , Woking , on hollows among nets on an old larch stump. B.M. 3012 [ BM001247527 !].

The material from box B.M. 3012 is missing in the list of syntype specimens provided by Lado & Basanta (2018).

This species is characterised by a small, usually clustered and confluent, subglobose aethalium up to 1.1 mm in diam. with sparse, or sometimes absent pseudocapillitium and non-clustered, globose spores, reticulated on 2/3 of the surface ( Martin & Alexopoulos 1969, Nannenga-Bremekamp 1991, Lister 1894). The spore size and ornamentation in the studied syntypes fits well with the descriptions of Lister (1894) and the cited subsequent authors.