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MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS PROTOSTELIUM
Author(s) -
Olive Lindsay S.,
Stoianovitch Carmen
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1969.tb09749.x
Subject(s) - biology , stalk , botany , genus , key (lock) , ecology , horticulture
Three new species of Protostelium (Order Protostelida of the Mycetozoa) are described: P. irregularis, P. zonatura , and P. pyriformis , all with rather wide distribution and occurring on dead attached plant parts, less often in soil and humus. The latter two species differ from the first and from the other two known species, P. mycophaga Olive and Stoianovitch and P. arachisporum Olive, in the endogenous origin of the stalk. P. mycophaga var. crassipes , with vesicular stalk bases, is the third variety of that species to be described. A key to the genus is included.