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AUSTRALIAN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 50-66Publisher
CSIRO PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1071/SB07040
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During the 2001-2006 field seasons, samples for isolation of dictyostelid cellular slime moulds were collected at several localities in Queensland, the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Victoria. The majority of these samples were collected from the soil-litter layer on the ground, but some additional samples were obtained from the layer of organic matter ('canopy soil') associated with the bases of vascular epiphytes on the trunks and branches of trees in the tropical forests of northern Queensland. Many of the forms recovered from these samples could be assigned to described taxa, including such cosmopolitan species as Dictyostelium mucoroides, Polysphondylium pallidum, P. violaceum and D. giganteum. However, several others appear to represent new species, and eight of these ( D. boomeransporum, D. flexuosum, D. granulosum, D. myxobasis, D. radiculatum, D. rotatum, P. australicum and P. stolonicoideum) are described herein. The large number of apparently undescribed forms suggests that the dictyostelid biota of Australia is relatively distinct when compared with that of any other continent.
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