''Diderma'' is a genus of

slime mold Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms with a life cycle that includes a free-living single-celled stage and the formation of spores. Spores are often produced in macroscopic mu ...

s in the family

Didymiaceae Didymiaceae is a family of plasmodial slime molds in the order Physarales. Genera The family contains the following four genera: * ''Diderma'' * ''Didymium'' * '' Lepidoderma'' * ''Mucilago ''Mucilago crustacea'' is a species of slime mould, ...

. The genus was first described by

Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a German mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. Early life Persoon was born in South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, the third child of an immig ...

in 1794, and the type species is ''

Diderma globosum ''Diderma globosum'' is a species of slime mould in the family Didymiaceae Didymiaceae is a family of plasmodial slime molds in the order Physarales. Genera The family contains the following four genera: * '' Diderma'' * '' Didymium'' * '' L ...

''. The genus contains over 200 taxa, and includes: * ''

Diderma stellulum ''Diderma stellulum'' is a species of slime mould in the family Didymiaceae, first described by Marie Leonore Farr in 1988. It is found in Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the ...

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Diderma subasteroides ''Diderma subasteroides'' is a species of slime mould in the family Didymiaceae, first described by Marie Leonore Farr in 1971. It has been found in Africa, South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemispher ...

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Diderma cinereum ''Diderma cinereum'' is a species of slime mould in the family Didymiaceae, first described by Andrew Price Morgan in 1894, from specimen(s) found in the Miami Valley The Miami Valley is the land area surrounding the Great Miami River in sout ...

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Diderma effusum ''Diderma effusum'' is a species of slime mould in the family Didymiaceae, first described by Lewis David de Schweinitz in 1832 as ''Physarum effusum'', and transferred to the genus, ''Diderma'', in 1894 by Andrew Price Morgan. It is found throu ...

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Diderma floriforme ''Diderma'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Didymiaceae. The genus was first described by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1794, and the type species is '' Diderma globosum''. The genus contains over 200 taxa, and includes: * '' Diderma s ...

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Diderma testaceum ''Diderma'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Didymiaceae. The genus was first described by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1794, and the type species is '' Diderma globosum''. The genus contains over 200 taxa, and includes: * '' Diderma s ...

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Diderma umbilicatum ''Diderma'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Didymiaceae Didymiaceae is a family of plasmodial slime molds in the order Physarales. Genera The family contains the following four genera: * '' Diderma'' * '' Didymium'' * '' Lepidoderma' ...

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Amoebozoa genera Myxogastria Taxa described in 1794 Taxa named by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon {{Amoebozoa-stub