Mycologia
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
DOI: 10.3852/mycologia.100.2.347
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Kawakami, S.-i.
Right arrow Articles by Hagiwara, H.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Kawakami, S.-i.
Right arrow Articles by Hagiwara, H.
Agricola
Right arrow Articles by Kawakami, S.-i.
Right arrow Articles by Hagiwara, H.
Mycologia, 100(2), 2008, pp. 347-351.
© 2008 by The Mycological Society of America

Polysphondylium multicystogenum sp. nov., a new dictyostelid species from Sierra Leone, West Africa


Shin-ichi Kawakami 1
Hiromitsu Hagiwara

     Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, Amakubo 4-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan

Polysphondylium multicystogenum, a new heterothallic species of dictyostelids, is described based on three isolates collected from soils in Sierra Leone, West Africa. This species is characterized by sorophores with a combination of clavate base and ovoid to oblong tip cell, smaller spores and abundant microcyst production under the usual culture conditions for sorocarp formation at 20 C. This is the first report of Polysphondylium producing such abundant microcysts.

Key words: dictyostelid cellular slime molds, mating, microcyst, Polysphondylium multicystogenum, species complex, taxonomy

1 Corresponding author. E-mail: shkawak{at}yahoo.co.jp






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 2008 by The Mycological Society of America.