''Diderma globosum'' is a species of

slime mould 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 ...

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 ...

, 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.

References

External links

Description of ''Diderma globosum'' at DiscoverLife
Taxa named by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Taxa described in 1794 Myxogastria Myxogastria species {{Amoebozoa-stub