Enteridium Ehrenb.

Zamora, Juan Carlos, Rodrigues, Daniel, García-Cunchillos, Iván & Lado, Carlos, 2025, First insights into the phylogeny of the order Cribrariales (Amoebozoa, Myxomycetes), with the definite exclusion of the genus Enteridium, IMA Fungus 16, pp. e 159960-e 159960 : e159960-

Enteridium Ehrenb. , Jahrb. Gewächsk. 1 (2): 55. 1819

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≡ Licaethalium Rostaf. , Vers. Syst. Mycetozoen: 4. 1873, nom. illeg. (Art. 52.1).

Type.

Enteridium olivaceum Ehrenb., Jahrb. Gewächsk. 1 (2): 57. 1819.

Updated diagnosis.

Within the family Dianemataceae , Enteridium is characterized by the flat, usually effused sporophores with either a pseudocapillitium consisting of perforated plates or flat pillar-like structures, a true capillitium of sparse, simple threads, or lacking any capillitium or pseudocapillitium, and free or clustered spores, ornamented with warts or spines, these concentrated on the outer side of the cluster when the spores are not free.

Accepted species names

Figures

Figure 6. Morphological traits in the genus Enteridium. A Dried sclerotized plasmodium of E. variabile (≡ Licea variabilis) (G 00586174) still showing a bright orange pigmentation; B – D mature sporophores of: E. olivaceum (B, C, Meyer 47160, image C showing a detail of the reticulate and membranous pseudocapillitium), E. variabile (D, G 00586174), and E. corticatum (≡ Dianema corticatum) (E, Meyer 24378); F – I spores under the light microscope of E. variabile (F, G 00586174), E. olivaceum (G, Meyer 47160), E. cf. liceoides (H, Woerly 3435 a), and E. corticatum (I, Meyer 24378); J true capillitium of E. corticatum (Meyer 24378) with typical bead-like thickenings; K, L scanning electron microphotographs of E. olivaceum (MA-Fungi 57408) showing a spore cluster (K) and pseudocapillitial plates (L). Scale bars: 1 mm (A, B, D, E); 0.2 mm (C); 10 µm (F – J); 2 µm (K); 50 µm (L).