Lycogala caviaroides Leontyev, Schnittler, S. L. Stephenson & G. Konstantinides, 2023

Song, Wen-Long, Jiang, Zi-Qiong, Li, Min, Leontyev, Dmytro, Gao, Yang & Chen, Shuang-Lin, 2025, Comprehensive revision of Lycogala (Myxomycetes) in subtropical China: morphological and phylogenetic insights and ten new species, IMA Fungus 16, pp. e 147535-e 147535 : e147535-

Lycogala caviaroides Leontyev, Schnittler, S. L. Stephenson & G. Konstantinides , in Leontyev, Ishchenko & Schnittler, Mycologia 115 (4): 533 (2023)

Specimen examined.

NA.

Distribution.

Germany, Greece, United States ( Leontyev et al. 2023 b), and China (this study).

Notes.

Lycogala caviaroides was separated from the L. epidendrum complex based on morphological characteristics and two-gene phylogenetic analysis (SSU and COI) by Leontyev et al. (2023 a, b). When retrieving GenBank data for our study, we found a COI sequence of specimen MCCNNU 0250 , which was previously submitted to GenBank. This specimen originates from Tianmu Mountain National Nature Reserve, Zhejiang Province, subtropical China. Based on the COI sequences similarity, specimen MCCNNU 0250 can be attributed to L. caviaroides (Fig. 2 ). However, we could not obtain the specimen MCCNNU 0250 for the morphological study. Therefore, we cannot reliably confirm the occurrence of L. caviaroides in subtropical China at this time.

Figures

Figure 2. Maximum likelihood tree inferred from the concatenated sequences of SSU and COI, showing the phylogenetic relationship of Lycogala. The members of Reticularia were used to root the tree. Only Maximum likelihood ultrafast bootstrap support (UBS) / Bayesian posterior probabilities (PP) ≥ 70 / 0.7 are shown. The voucher numbers are indicated after the species names. The number of identical genotypes is in parentheses (if present). The ten new species described in this study are indicated in red and bold. The four new species to China are indicated in blue and bold. Other newly obtained sequences are in bold. The scale bar represents the number of substitutions per site.