''Licea'' is a genus of
slime molds
Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to a polyphyly, polyphyletic assemblage of unrelated eukaryotic organisms in the Stramenopiles, Rhizaria, Discoba, Amoebozoa and Holomycota clades. Most are near-microscopic; those in the Myx ...
belonging to the family
Liceidae.
The genus was
first described by
Heinrich Schrader in 1797.
The genus has a
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...
.
Species:
* ''
Licea inconspicua''
* ''
Licea kleistobolus''
* ''
Licea parasitica''
* ''
Licea pusilla''
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q1823196
Myxogastria
Myxogastria genera
Taxa named by Heinrich Schrader (botanist)