TY -JOUR AU -Chao-Hsuan Chung and Chin-Hui Liu TI -Myxomycetes of Taiwan VIII PY -1997 DA -0000-00-00 JO -Taiwania VL -42 IS -4 SP -274 EP -288 UR -https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/98 AB -Clastoderma debaryanum var. imperatorium, Craterium leucocephalum var. rufum, C. minutum, Didymium perforatum, Physarum alboradianum, P. penetrale, P. plicatum, and P. psittacinum are newly recorded in Taiwan. The new status for Physarum nutans Persoon var. rubrum (Nann.-Brem. & Yamamoto) C.-H. Chung stat. nov. (Basionym: Physarum nutans Persoon f. rubrum Nann.-Brem. & Yamamoto, Proc. K. Ned. Akad. Wet., Ser. C 90: 341. 1987) is proposed. We agree that Clastoderma dictyosporum is synonymous with C. debaryanum, and Physarum laevisporum should be excluded from the myxomycete biota of Taiwan. The occurrence of Perichaena corticalis var. liceoides in Taiwan is confirmed after its first report in 1929. More collections of Arcyria minuta are reported, which has been recorded as A. carnea in Taiwan. SEM micrographs are made for Erionema aureum and Willkommlangia reticulata. DO -10.6165/tai.1997.42.274