Meriderma echinulatum. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].
Abstract A description is provided for Meriderma echinulatum, a myxomycete which occurs on dead, sometimes dry, leaves, living and dead stems, and twigs 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 (USA (California); Japan; Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia (Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Leningrad Oblast), Ukraine) and associated organism and substrata (Acer sp.; Alnus sp. (stem); Arctostaphylos nevadensis (leaf); Fagus sylvatica (stem); Gramineae indet.; Muscopsida indet.; Rhododendron sp. (leaf); Rubus sp. (stem); Vaccinium myrtillus (stem, twig), Vaccinium sp. (shoot)).