Licea poculiformis Ukkola (1998: 5)

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 : 33-35

* Licea poculiformis Ukkola (1998: 5) . Fig. 12 .

Description:—Our specimen consists of only 3 dark goblet-shaped sporocarps, 135–170 µm in total height and 95–110 µm in diameter, with a light distinct cap and spores from light to pale greenish-yellow (105 to 109) by transmitted light, (9.7–) 9.9 –11.7 (–12.3) µm in diameter, with a paler area, smooth under LM.

Material examined – LOC 12 (MYX 10222) .

Habitat:—on moss growing on the bark of a living tree ( Tilia amurensis ), pH: 6,59 (n = 1).

Distribution:— Tanzania ( Ukkola 1998), Mexico ( Lado et al. 2003), Japan (Yamamoto 2006), Poland ( Ronikier et al. 2017), eastern Russia.

Notes:— Our material is consistent with the original description ( Ukkola 1998); however, it has slightly larger spores, just like the specimens from Poland (KRAM M-1615): 9.7–12.3 μm in our specimens and 10–13 μm in Polish ones vs. 8.5–10 μm in specimens from the type habitat in Tanzania.

Figures

FIGURE 12. Licea poculiformis (MYX10222). a, b: Sporocarps. c: Spores by TL. Scale bars: a, b = 100 µm, c = 20 µm.