Didymiaceae is a family of plasmodial
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
Physarales
Physarales is an order of Amoebozoa in the class Myxomycetes. It contains three families, the Didymiaceae, the Lamprodermataceae, and the Physaraceae. Physarales was circumscribed by Thomas Huston Macbride
Thomas Huston Macbride (July 31, 1848 ...
.
Genera
The family contains the following four genera:
* ''
Diderma
''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 stel ...
''
* ''
Didymium
Didymium ( el, , twin) is a mixture of the elements praseodymium and neodymium. It is used in safety glasses for glassblowing and blacksmithing, especially with a gas (propane)-powered forge, where it provides a filter that selectively blocks t ...
''
* ''
Lepidoderma''
* ''
Mucilago
''Mucilago crustacea'' is a species of slime mould, in the monotypic genus ''Mucilago'', in the family Didymiaceae
Didymiaceae is a family of plasmodial slime molds in the order Physarales.
Genera
The family contains the following four genera ...
''
References
Amoebozoa families
Myxogastria
{{Amoebozoa-stub