''Diderma'' is a genus of

slime mold Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to a polyphyletic assemblage of unrelated eukaryotic organisms in the Stramenopiles, Rhizaria, Discoba, Amoebozoa and Holomycota clades. Most are near-microscopic; those in the Myxogastria ...

s in the family

Didymiaceae Didymiaceae is a family of plasmodial slime molds in the order Physarales Physarales is an order of Amoebozoa in the class Myxomycetes. It contains three families, the Didymiaceae, the Lamprodermataceae, and the Physaraceae. Physarales w ...

. The genus was first described by

Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (31 December 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a Cape Colony mycologist who is recognized as one of the founders of mycology, mycological Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy. Early life Persoon was born in Cape Colony at ...

in 1794, and the type species is '' Diderma globosum''. The genus contains over 200 taxa, and includes: * '' Diderma stellulum'' * '' Diderma subasteroides'' * '' Diderma cinereum'' * '' Diderma effusum'' * '' Diderma floriforme'' *'' Diderma globosum'' * '' Diderma testaceum'' * '' Diderma umbilicatum''

References

Myxogastria genera Myxogastria Taxa described in 1794 Taxa named by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon {{Amoebozoa-stub