Abstract

Species of ten genera of Stemonitaceae, including Collaria, Comatricha, Enerthenema, Lamproderma, Macbrideola, Paradiacheopsis, Stemonaria, Stemonitis, Stemonitopsis, and Symphytocarpus, collected from Taiwan are critically revised. Of the 42 species recorded, Enerthenema intermedium and Stemonitopsis subcaespitosa are new to Taiwan, thus are described and illustrated in this paper. Keys to the species of all genera, and to the genera of the family are also provided.

Keyword: Myxomycetes, Stemonitaceae, Taiwan, taxonomy.