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Badhamia

Badhamia is a genus of slime molds in the family Physaraceae. It was circumscribed by English naturalist Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1853. The widespread genus contains about 30 species.

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Badhamia
Badhamia utricularis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Myxogastria
Order: Physarales
Family: Physaraceae
Genus: Badhamia
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Type species
Badhamia capsulifera

Badhamia is a genus of slime molds in the family Physaraceae.1 It was circumscribed by English naturalist Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1853.23 The widespread genus contains about 30 species.4

Species

  • Badhamia affinis
  • Badhamia apiculospora
  • Badhamia bibasalis
  • Badhamia bispora
  • Badhamia calcaripes
  • Badhamia capsulifera
  • Badhamia cinerascens
  • Badhamia crassipella
  • Badhamia delicatula
  • Badhamia dubia
  • Badhamia foliicola
  • Badhamia formosana
  • Badhamia gigantospora
  • Badhamia goniospora
  • Badhamia grandispora
  • Badhamia iowensis
  • Badhamia lilacina
  • Badhamia macrocarpa
  • Badhamia macrospora
  • Badhamia melanospora
  • Badhamia nitens
  • Badhamia ovispora
  • Badhamia panicea
  • Badhamia papaveracea
  • Badhamia populina
  • Badhamia rhytidosperma
  • Badhamia rugulosa
  • Badhamia spinispora
  • Badhamia utricularis
  • Badhamia versicolor
  • Badhamia viridescens
References

References

  1. Leontyev, Dmitry V.; Schnittler, Martin; Stephenson, Steven L.; Novozhilov, Yuri K.; Shchepin, Oleg N. (2019). "Towards a phylogenetic classification of the Myxomycetes". Phytotaxa. 399 (3): 209. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.399.3.5. ISSN 1179-3163. S2CID 108783142.
  2. Berkeley MJ. (1852). "On two new genera of fungi" (PDF). Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 21 (2): 149–54. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1852.tb00449.x.
  3. Badhamia in Index Fungorum.
  4. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 760. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.