Stemonitidaceae is an
family
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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 order
Stemonitidales.
It was first
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by
Elias Magnus Fries
Elias Magnus Fries (15 August 1794 – 8 February 1878) was a Swedish mycologist and botanist.
Career
Fries was born at Femsjö (Hylte Municipality), Småland, the son of the pastor there. He attended school in Växjö.
He acquired ...
in 1829.
Genera
*''
Leptoderma
''Leptoderma'' is a genus of slickheads found in the deep waters of the ocean
The ocean (also the sea or the world ocean) is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of the surface of Earth and contains 97% of Earth's wat ...
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*''
Macbrideola''
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Meriderma''
*''
Paradiachea''
*''
Stemonitis
''Stemonitis'' is a distinctive genus of slime moulds found throughout the world (except Antarctica). They are characterised by the tall brown sporangia, supported on slender stalks, which grow in clusters on rotting wood. The genus was first des ...
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*''
Symphytocarpus''
Genera previously included in Stemonitidaceae, now transferred to
Amaurochaetaceae
Amaurochaetaceae is an family of slime molds in the order Stemonitidales.
Genera
*'' Amaurochaete''
*'' Brefeldia''
*''Comatricha
''Comatricha'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae. As of 2015, Index Fungorum
''Index ...
:
*''
Amaurochaete''
*''
Brefeldia''
*''
Comatricha
''Comatricha'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Amaurochaetaceae. As of 2015, Index Fungorum
''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names (scientific names) in the fungus kingdom. the project is based at th ...
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*''
Enerthenema''
*''
Stemonaria''
*''
Stemonitopsis''
*''
Paradiacheopsis''
Genera previously included in Stemonitidaceae, now transferred to
Lamprodermataceae
Lamprodermataceae is a family of slime molds in the order Physarales
Physarales is an order of Amoebozoa in the class Myxomycetes. It contains three families, the Didymiaceae
Didymiaceae is a family of plasmodial slime molds in the order ...
:
*''
Collaria''
Nann.-Bremek
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Colloderma''
G. Lister
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Diacheopsis''
Meyl.
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Lamproderma''
Rostaf.
References
Myxogastria
Amoebozoa families
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