Licea (Licea)
Creators: name: Basanta, Diana Wrigley De
name: Mier, Carlos De
name: Lado, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Dictyosteliomycetes
Dictyosteliales
Raperosteliaceae
Licea

description: Key to species in the subgenus Licea.
Species, critically studied within this publication, are marked in bold.
1. Sporophores stipitate ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2
1’. Sporophores sessile .......................................................................................................................................................................... 3
2. Peridium double. Spores globose, apparently smooth by TL .............................................................................................. L. alpina
2’. Peridium single. Spores angular, ornamented by TL ................................................................................................... L. eremophila
3. Spores in pairs or clusters ................................................................................................................................................................. 4
3’. Spores free ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
4. Spores grayish-olive to colourless by TL ............................................................................................................. L. synchrysospora
4’. Spores yellow-brown by TL ........................................................................................................................................... L. synsporos
4’’. Spores lilac-grey by TL ............................................................................................................................................... L. confundens
5. Peridium single ................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
5’. Peridium double or triple ................................................................................................................................................................ 10
6. Peridium with multiple rows of fused outgrowths [pegs] on platelet edges ................................................................. L. deplanata
6’. Peridium with a single row of outgrowths on platelet margins or no outgrowths ............................................................................ 7
7. Peridium with a single row of outgrowths ...................................................................................................................... L. castanea
7’. Peridium without outgrowths ........................................................................................................................................................... 8
8. Spores 8–9 µm diam. ........................................................................................................................................................ L. hepatica
8’. Spores larger than 9 µm diam. .......................................................................................................................................................... 9
9. Sporocarps pale brown. Peridial platelets with smooth clear margins. Spores warted, 12–14 µm diam. .............. L. ampulliformis
9’. Sporocarps golden. Peridial platelets without smooth clear margins. Spores smooth, 14–15 µm diam. ............................. L. aurea
10. Peridium triple ........................................................................................................................................................ L. morchelloides
10’. Peridium double .............................................................................................................................................................................. 11
11. Peridium platelet margins without prominent outgrowths ............................................................................................................. 12
11’. Peridium with prominent warts or outgrowths at the margin of the platelets ................................................................................ 15
12. Peridium without lines of dehiscence ....................................................................................................................... L. castaneoides
12’. Peridium with lines of dehiscence, or dehiscence along ridges ......................................................................................................13
13. Spores angular to polygonal ........................................................................................................................................ Licea capacia [if stipitate with subglobose sporotheca see L. eremophila above]
13’ Spores subglobose or globose ......................................................................................................................................................... 14
14. Sporocarps dark brown. Spores light brown, warted by SEM .................................................................................. L. belmontiana
14’ Sporocarps ochraceous. Spores olivaceous, smooth even by SEM ............................................................................. L. nannengae
15. Sporocarps conical with a shiny basal ring ................................................................................................................. L. rufocuprea
15’. Sporocarps pulvinate, or subglobose, not conical .......................................................................................................................... 16
16. Peridial platelets with lines of densely packed warts on the inner margins .................................................................... L. lignicola
16’. Peridial platelets with large outgrowths like pegs on the inner margins ........................................................................................ 17
17. Margins of platelets dark (see also L. mariae) .................................................................................................... L. nigromarginata
17’. Margins concolorous with the rest of the platelet ............................................................................................................................18
18. Spores in mass dark brown ............................................................................................................................................................. 19
18’. Spores in mass red, olive, yellow or almost colourless................................................................................................................... 20
19. Spores 15–18 µm diam ............................................................................................................................................... L. chelonoides
19’. Spores 11–13 µm diam ............................................................................................................................................... L.testudinacea
20. Spores pale red brown by TL ............................................................................................................................................. L. minima
20’. Spores olive, greenish yellow or almost colourless by TL ............................................................................................................. 21
21. Spores smooth, almost colourless by TL ............................................................................................................................ L. mariae
21’. Spores warted or spiny, olive to yellow by TL ............................................................................................................................... 22
22. Spores 16–20 µm diam, olive brown by TL ....................................................................................................................... L. pusilla
22’. Spores <15 µm diam, greenish yellow by TL ................................................................................................................. L. pygmaea
description: Published as part of Basanta, Diana Wrigley De, Mier, Carlos De & Lado, Carlos, 2023, A taxonomic revision of the species of Licea subg. Licea (Myxomycetes), pp. 95-128 in Phytotaxa 629 (2) on pages 123-124, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.629.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10276047