Moreno, Gabriel, Antonio Sánchez, Aurelio Castillo, Harald Singer & Carlos Illana. Nivicolous myxomycetes from the Sierra Nevada National Park (Spain). Mycotaxon 87: 223 - 242. 2003.

ABSTRACT: The first results of studies of nivicolous Myxomycetes from the National Park of Sierra Nevada (Spain) are presented. They are the most southern records from Europe. 16 different taxa were collected of 169 samples, two of them are new records for the Iberian Peninsula: Didymium nivicolum and Physarum alpinum. Detailed descriptions of taxa that are new to Spain or difficult to distinguish are given including SEM micrographs of spore ornamentation.

KEYWORDS: chorology, Diderma, Didymium, Lamproderma, Lepidoderma, Physarum, SEM, taxonomy