''Diderma'' is a genus of

slime mold Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms with a life cycle that includes a free-living single-celled stage and the formation of spores. Spores are often produced in macroscopic mul ...

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 was ...

. The genus was first described by

Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a German mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. Early life Persoon was born in South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, the third child of an immi ...

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

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