Licea parasitica (Zukal 1893: 73) Martin (1942: 702)

Bortnikov, Fedor M., Gmoshinskiy, Vladimir I. & Novozhilov, Yuri K., 2022, Species of Licea Schrad. (Myxomycetes) in Kedrovaya Pad State Nature Biosphere Reserve (Far East, Russia), including two new species, Phytotaxa 541 (1), pp. 21-48 : 33

Licea parasitica (Zukal 1893: 73) Martin (1942: 702) . Fig. 10 .

Material examined:— LOC 3 ( MYX 8199, MYX 8200), LOC 5 (only as the specimen photograph), LOC 11 ( MYX 10191, MYX 10193), LOC 13 ( MYX 10224, MYX 10229), LOC 14 ( MYX 10122, MYX 10125, MYX 10370, MYX 10381, MYX 10383), LOC 22 ( MYX 10110), LOC 28 ( MYX 11135, MYX 11145), LOC 34 ( MYX 10079, MYX 10082, MYX 10085, MYX 10087) .

Habitat:—bark of living trees ( Abies nephrolepis , Acer mandshuricum , Betula cf. lanata , B. mandshurica , Phellodendron amurense , Pinus koraiensis , and Quercus mongolica ), pH: 4.33–5.97 (n = 17).

Notes:—This common species is easily recognized by small flattened black sporocarps with a distinct operculum of the same color and by smooth spores (10.7–) 12.7–16.5 (–17.5) μm in diameter with unevenly thickened walls.

Figures

FIGURE 10. Licea parasitica (MYX8199: a, b, g; MYX10079: d; MYX10224: e, f; MYX10229: c). a–c: Sporocarps. d: Spores and a fragment of peridium by TL. e: Inner peridium under SEM. f: Inner peridium and spores under SEM. g: Spores under SEM. Scale bars: a–c = 50 µm, d = 20 µm, e–g = 5 µm.