Abstract
A description is provided for Lamproderma arcyrioides, a myxomycete which occurs on dead bark, leaves, logs, stems, twigs and wood of various angiosperms and gymnosperms. Some information on its interactions and habitats, economic impacts, intraspecific variation, dispersal and transmission and conservation status is given, along with details of its geographical distribution (AFRICA: Algeria, Morocco, South Africa; NORTH AMERICA: Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario), Mexico, USA (Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Oregon, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia); CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica, El Salvador; SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Brazil (Amazonas, Pernambuco, São Paulo); ANTARCTICA: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; ASIA: India (Himachal Pradesh), Indonesia, Japan, Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Novosibirsk Oblast, Tyumen Oblast), Turkey; AUSTRALASIA: Australia (Tasmania [including Macquarie Island], Western Australia), New Zealand; CARIBBEAN: Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico; EUROPE: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (Astrakhan Oblast, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Komi Republic, Kursk Oblast, Leningrad Oblast, Moscow Oblast, Murmansk Oblast, Republic of Karelia), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, UK; Pacific OCEAN: New Caledonia) and associated organisms and substrata (Fungi: Corticiaceae gen. indet. (basidioma); Physcia adscendens (thallus); Xanthoria parietina (thallus); Plantae: Abies nordmanniana subsp. equi-trojani; Adenostyles alliariae; Calluna vulgaris; Carpinus betulus (twig); Corylus avellana; Cytisus sp.; Euonymus sp. (twig); Fagus sylvatica (cupule, twig), Fagus sp. (leaf); Fraxinus excelsior (twig); Gramineae indet.; Hedera helix; Heracleum sphondylium (stem); Juniperus communis; Lycopus europaeus (stem), Lycopus sp. (stem); Mangifera indica; Muscopsida indet. (thallus); Nothofagus pumilio (wood); Plantae indet. (bark, debris, leaf, log, twig, wood); Poaceae gen. indet. (straw); Populus nigra (bark), P. tremula (branch), Populus sp.; Prunus laurocerasus (leaf); Rubus sp. (stem); Vaccinium myrtillus; Vitis vinifera (leaf, wood)).