Abstract
The only microscopic slide of Diacheopsis metallica studied by Charles Meylan conserved in Lausanne was examined, and a neotype was proposed for this species. Diacheopsis metallica is compared with other European and American collections and with Diacheopsis kowalskii. Both species are considered distinct due to differences in spore size and morphology of the capillitium. Light microscope and scanning electron microscope photographs of D. metallica and D. kowalskii are presented; the species are new records for Spain.
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This investigation was partly financed by the Research Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, National Plan of Scientific Investigation, Technological Development and Innovation, REN2002-01965. We are especially grateful to M. Meyer and the curator of the herbarium LAU for their collaboration and the shipment of specimens. We express our gratitude to D.W. Mitchell and R.P. Korf for the revision of the manuscript and wish to thank J.A. Pérez and A. Priego of the Electron Microscopy Service of the University of Alcalá for their invaluable help with the SEM. H. Singer thanks the National Program of the Professorship Formation, Ministry of Education and Culture of Spain, for the scholarship that supported his doctoral thesis at the University of Alcalá.
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Moreno, G., Singer, H., Sánchez, A. et al. Diacheopsis metallica and Diacheopsis kowalskii: comparison of two distinct myxomycete species. Mycol Progress 5, 129–135 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-006-0506-9
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