Stemonitidaceae is a
family
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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 order
Stemonitidales.
It was first
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* Circum ...
by
Elias Magnus Fries
Elias Magnus Fries (15 August 1794 – 8 February 1878) was a Swedish mycologist and botanist. He is sometimes called the Mycology, "Linnaeus of Mycology". In his works he described and assigned botanical names to hundreds of fungus and li ...
in 1829.
Genera
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Leptoderma
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Macbrideola
''Macbrideola'' is a genus of Amoebozoa in the family Stemonitidaceae. As of 2015, there are 17 species in the genus.
The genus name of ''Macbrideola'' is in honour of Thomas Huston Macbride (1848–1934), who was the tenth president of the Univ ...
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Meriderma''
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Paradiachea''
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Stemonitis
''Stemonitis'' is a distinctive genus of slime moulds found throughout the world (except Antarctica). They are characterised by the tall brown sporangia, supported on slender stalks, which grow in clusters on rotting wood. The genus was first de ...
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Symphytocarpus''
Genera previously included in Stemonitidaceae, now transferred to
Amaurochaetaceae
Amaurochaetaceae is a family of slime molds in the order Stemonitidales.
Genera
*''Amaurochaete''
*'' Brefeldia''
*''Comatricha''
*'' Enerthenema''
*''Stemonaria''
*''Stemonitopsis
''Stemonitopsis'' is a genus of slime molds in the family ...
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Amaurochaete
''Amaurochaete'' 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 ar ...
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Brefeldia
''Brefeldia'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae.
The genus name of ''Brefeldia'' is in honour of Julius Oscar Brefeld (1839 – 1925), a German botanist and mycologist.
The genus was circumscribed by Józef Tomasz Rostafí ...
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Comatricha
''Comatricha'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae. As of 2015, Index Fungorum includes 39 species in the genus.
Species
*'' Comatricha afroalpina''
*'' Comatricha aggregata''
*'' Comatricha alta''
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Enerthenema
''Enerthenema'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae
Amaurochaetaceae is a family of slime molds in the order Stemonitidales.
Genera
*''Amaurochaete''
*'' Brefeldia''
*''Comatricha''
*'' Enerthenema''
*''Stemonaria''
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Stemonaria
''Stemonaria'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae. , there are 14 species in the genus.
Species
*''Stemonaria argentella''
*''Stemonaria clausifila''
*''Stemonaria fuscoides''
*''Stemonaria gracilis''
*''Stemonaria irregul ...
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Stemonitopsis
''Stemonitopsis'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae. First circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by Dutch botanist Elly Nannenga-Bremekamp in 1967 as a subgenus of ''Comatricha'', she later elevated the grouping to gen ...
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Paradiacheopsis''
Genera previously included in Stemonitidaceae, now transferred to
Lamprodermataceae
Lamprodermataceae is a family of 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 c ...
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Collaria''
Nann.-Bremek
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Colloderma
''Colloderma'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Lamprodermataceae
Lamprodermataceae is a family of slime molds in the order Physarales
Physarales is an order of Amoebozoa in the class Myxomycetes. It contains three families, the ...
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G. Lister
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Diacheopsis''
Meyl.
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Lamproderma
''Lamproderma'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Lamprodermataceae. As of 2015, there are 46 species in the genus.
Species
*'' Lamproderma acanthosporum''
*'' Lamproderma aeneum''
*'' Lamproderma alexopouli''
*'' Lamproderma anglicum''
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Rostaf.
References
Myxogastria
Amoebozoa families
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