taxonID	type	description	language	source
C456878BA92BFFEDEFC6FAB55F60F821.taxon	description	Specimen examined: — PERU. Junin: Huancayo, route 14 B, 10.8 km W of Hacienda Acopalca, 3505 m, 12 º 00 ’ 18 ” S, 75 º 09 ’ 38 ” W, 27 April 2017, bark and wood of Eucalyptus globulus, Lado 25434 (MA-Fungi 96589), trunk of Eucalyptus globulus, Lado 25437 (MA-Fungi 96591).	en	Treviño-Zevallos, Italo, García-Cunchillos, Iván, Lado, Carlos (2021): New records of Myxomycetes (Amoebozoa) from the tropical Andes. Phytotaxa 522 (3): 231-239, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.6
C456878BA92BFFEDEFC6FAB55F60F821.taxon	discussion	Comments: — First record for the Southern Hemisphere. Associated with vegetation in cultivated areas, mainly the bark and dead wood of Eucalyptus globulus. The species is recognized by its crowded, sessile sporocarps and spiny or warty capillitium. The specimen analyzed agrees with the description of Nannenga-Bremekamp (1991), however, as observed by Zhang & Li (2013), the spores of the collections examined are larger, up to 9 µm vs. 6 – 8 µm in diameter in Nannenga-Bremekamp (1991).	en	Treviño-Zevallos, Italo, García-Cunchillos, Iván, Lado, Carlos (2021): New records of Myxomycetes (Amoebozoa) from the tropical Andes. Phytotaxa 522 (3): 231-239, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.6
C456878BA928FFEFEFC6FAAA590DFEDA.taxon	description	Specimen examined: — PERU. Huancavelica: Huaytara, Pilpichaca, route PE- 28 A, km 208, 10 km W of Licapa, 4020 m, 13 º 24 ’ 18 ” S, 74 º 53 ’ 54 ” W, 23 April 2017, dead leaves of Puya raimondii, Lado 25103 (MA-Fungi 96291).	en	Treviño-Zevallos, Italo, García-Cunchillos, Iván, Lado, Carlos (2021): New records of Myxomycetes (Amoebozoa) from the tropical Andes. Phytotaxa 522 (3): 231-239, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.6
C456878BA928FFEFEFC6FAAA590DFEDA.taxon	discussion	Comments: — Third record in the world, the second in South America, and the first for Peru. The previous collections of the species were found at 2400 m. a. s. l. in mountain rain forest (Rammeloo 1981) and 831 m. a. s. l. in Araucaria moist forest (De Lima & Cavalcanti 2016), however, our specimen was found in a very different environment, at 4020 m. a. s. l., in puna vegetation, on the sheaths of the dead leaves of Puya raimondii, an endemic and endangered plant of the Tropical Andes. This species is characterized by the dark leathery peridium and the petaloid dehiscence of the sporotheca, the capillitium ornamented with smooth spirals and short pointed ends, 10 – 14 µm long. It is similar to M. floriformis (Schwein.) Nann. - Bremek. (1985: 127) in morphology, but the capillitium of M. floriformis presents long-tapering free ends, 25 – 40 µm long, while that of M. floripara has blunt ends. It also resembles M. vesparia (Batsch) Nann. - Bremek. ex G. W. Martin & Alexop. (1969: 143), but is easily distinguishable by the secondary spines on the spiral capillitium ornamentation, whereas there are smooth spirals in M. floripara.	en	Treviño-Zevallos, Italo, García-Cunchillos, Iván, Lado, Carlos (2021): New records of Myxomycetes (Amoebozoa) from the tropical Andes. Phytotaxa 522 (3): 231-239, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.6
C456878BA929FFEFEFC6FEF75C71FC43.taxon	description	Specimen examined: — PERU. Ancash: Asunción, Chacas, National Park Huascarán, Punta Olímpica, 4874 m, 9 º 08 ’ 04.3 ” S, 77 º 30 ’ 38.4 ” W, 21 April 2013, live and dead plant of Xenophyllum dactylophyllum, Lado 22957 (MA- Fungi 95139), Lado 22958 (MA-Fungi 95140).	en	Treviño-Zevallos, Italo, García-Cunchillos, Iván, Lado, Carlos (2021): New records of Myxomycetes (Amoebozoa) from the tropical Andes. Phytotaxa 522 (3): 231-239, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.6
C456878BA929FFEFEFC6FEF75C71FC43.taxon	discussion	Comments: — First record for the Neotropics and Peru. It was found in branches of small shrubs associated with cryoturbed soils, and it represents one of the records at higher altitudes of Myxomycetes in the world. Morphologically, it resembles Trichia contorta (Ditmar) Rostaf. (1875: 259), but it is distinguished by the smaller spores, 11 – 14 µm diam. vs. 14 – 15 µm diam. in T. mirabilis, and the length of the pointed free ends, 10 – 20 µm long vs. 8 – 9 µm long in T. mirabilis.	en	Treviño-Zevallos, Italo, García-Cunchillos, Iván, Lado, Carlos (2021): New records of Myxomycetes (Amoebozoa) from the tropical Andes. Phytotaxa 522 (3): 231-239, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.522.3.6
