Record Details:

Didymium candidum Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 570 (1821)

Sanctioning author:
Fr.

Nomenclatural comment:
Nom. illegit., Art. 52.1

Editorial comment:
Circumscription includes the type of a name (Diderma globosum Pers. 1794), the epithet of which ourgh to have been adopted. The generic name in this combination is not currently considered to apply to an organism within the fungal clade

Replaced synonym:
Diderma globosum Pers. 1794

Competing homonym:
non Didymium globosum (Pers.) Chevall. 1826

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Position in classification:
Didymiidae, Stemonitida, Myxogastria, Myxogastrea, Mycetozoa, Amoebozoa, Protozoa

Species Fungorum current name:
Diderma globosum Pers. 1794

Index Fungorum Registration Identifier 562325; click here to update this record

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