Reticularia liceoides (Lister) Nann.

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 : 98

Reticularia liceoides (Lister) Nann. -Bremek. (1973: 485)

≡ Enteridium olivaceum var. liceoides Lister (1896: 211)

≡ Enteridium liceoides (Lister) G. Lister , in Lister (1919: 48)

Lectotype:— UNITED KINGDOM. England: Alderbury and New Forest , 51.04ºN 1.73ºW, Dec 1895, G.Lister,B.M.1647 [ BM001095150 !]. Syntype:— UNITED KINGDOM. England: Bedfordshire , Leighton Buzzard , 51.9165ºN 0.6617ºW, Dec 1894, Lister, B.M. 1442 [ BM001089945 !] .

This species is characterised by its clustered spores and scanty capillitium. It was studied by Nannenga-Bremekamp (1973) and transfered to the genus Reticularia . Lister (1896) and Nannenga-Bremekamp (1991) differentiated it from Enteridium olivaceum Ehrenb. , by the depressed pulvinate, oval or irregular aethalium with a well-developed pseudocapillitium of larger size, while R. liceoides has small vermiform (worm-shaped) plasmodiocarps and very little or no capillitium. In growth habit, Licea variabilis Schrad. resembles it macroscopically but in that species the spores are not clustered and evenly distributed warty, and the sporocarps always lack a capillitium. Our observations on the type material confirms a low level of variation in these characters.