Abstract
The past myxomycete legacy covers fruiting bodies preserved in fossil amber more than 35 million years ago and early contributions by Linnaeus, de Bary, and the Listers at the British Museum of Natural History (BM), among whom the Listers introduced monographs, striking watercolors, and more narrow species concepts. Macbride and Martin (University of Iowa) published illustrated myxomycete monographs with broader species concepts. The transfer of the ∼9500 specimen Iowa myxomycete collection to the United States National Fungus Collections (BPI) is outlined and ∼234 type specimens are listed. Also covered is Lado's recent Nomenmyx and the online resource nomen. eumycetozoa. com, which offers ∼900 names for accepted myxomycete species. The current status of the BM and BPI myxomycete collections is noted, and Didymium saturnus provides an example of data associated with myxomycete specimens in the American Type Culture Collection. Problematic taxa are recommended for DNA sequencing to help clarify phylogenetic relationships.
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