List of slime moulds of South Africa

Genus: Aethalium Link 1809, accepted as Fuligo Haller, (1768)

• Aethalium septicum (L.) Fr. 1829[1] accepted as Fuligo septica (L.) F.H. Wigg., (1780)

Family: Arcyriaceae Rostaf. ex Cooke 1877[2] accepted as Trichiales T.Macbr. (1922)

Genus: Arcyria

• Arcyria cinerae Pers.[2]
• Arcyria denudata Wettstein[2]
• Arcyria incamata Pers.[2]
• Arcyria insignis Kalchbr. & Cooke[3]
• Arcyria nutans Grev.[3]
• Arcyria oerstedtii Rost.[3]
• Arcyria pomiformis Rost.[3]
• Arcyria punicea Pers.[3]
• Arcyria serpula Mass.[3]

Genus: Badhamia

• Badhamia affinis Rost.[4]
• Badhamia foliicola Lister.[4]
• Badhamia macrocarpa Rost.[4]
• Badhamia nitens Berk.[4]
• Badhamia rubiginosa var. dictyospora Lister[4]
• Badhamia utricularis Berk.[4]
• Badhamia varia Mass.[4]
• Badhamia sp.[4]

Family: Ceratiomyxaceae[5] see Ceratiomyxidae

Genus: Ceratiomyxa J. Schrot. (1889), (slime moulds)

• Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa Macbr.[5]
• Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. flexuosa Lister[5]
• Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. porioides Lister[5]

Genus: Dictydiaethalium

• Dictydiaethalium plumbeum Rost.[6]

Genus: Dictydium

• Dictydium cancellatum Macbr.[6]

Family: Didymiaceae[6]

Genus: Didymium

• Didymium difforme Duby.[6]
• Didymium leucopus Fr.[6]
• Didymium melanospermum Macbr.[6]
• Didymium microcarpon Rost.[6]
• Didymium nigripes Fr.
• Didymium nigripes var. eximium Lister.[6]
• Didymium nigripes var. xanthopus Lister.[6]
• Didymium physaroides Fr.[6]
• Didymium squamulosum Fr.[6]

Genus: Enerthenema Bowman 1830

• Enerthenema papillatum (Pers.) Rostaf. 1876[7]

Genus: Fuligo Haller 1768 (Slime moulds)

• Fuligo cinerea (Schwein.) Morgan 1896[8]
• Fuligo muscorum Alb. & Schwein. 1805[8]
• Fuligo septica Gmel.(sic)[8] possibly (L.) F.H. Wigg. 1780
• Fuligo varians Sommerf. 1826,[8]

Genus: Hemitrichia

• Hemitrichia clavata Rost.[9]
• Hemitrichia serpula Rost.[9]
• Hemitrichia vesparium Macbr.[9]

Genus: Lamproderma

• Lamproderma scintillans Morg.[10]
• Lamproderma violaceum Rost.[10]

Genus: Leocarpus

• Leocarpus fragilis Rost.[11]

Genus: Mucilago

• Mucilago spongiosa Morg.[12]

Myxomycetes[12] (Slime moulds)

Family: Physaraceae[13]

Genus: Physarum

• Physarum auriscalpium Cooke.[13]
• Physarum bitectum Lister.[13]
• Physarum bogoriense Rac.[13]
• Physarum capense Rost.[13]
• Physarum cinereum Pers.[13]
• Physarum citrinum Schum.[13]
• Physarum columbinum Sturgis.[13]
• Physarum compactum Lister[13]
• Physarum compressum Alb. & Schw.[13]
• Physarum confertum Macbr.[13]
• Physarum didermoides Rost.[13]
• Physarum digitatum Farquh. & G. Lister. [13]
• Physarum flavicomum Berk.[13]
• Physarum gyrosum Rost.[13]
• Physarum javanicum Rac.[13]
• Physarum kalchbrenneri Mass.[13]
• Physarum leucophaeum Fr.[13]
• Physarum leucopus Link.[13]
• Physarum melleum Mass.[13]
• Physarum mutabile Lister.[13]
• Physarum nucleatum Rex.[13]
• Physarum nutans Pers.[13]
• Physarum nutans var. leucophaeum Lister. [13]
• Physarum penetrale Rex.[13]
• Physarum pusillum Lister.[13]
• Physarum roseum Berk. & Br.[13]
• Physarum sinuosum Weinm.[13]
• Physarum tenerum Rex.[13]
• Physarum vemum Sommerf.[13]
• Physarum viride Pers.[13]
• Physarum viride var. aurantiaeum Lister.[14]
• Physarum viride var. incanum Lister.[14]

Genus: Reticularia

• Reticularia lycoperdon Bull.[15]

Family: Reticulariaceae[15]

Family: Stemonitaceae[16]

Genus: Stemonitis

• Stemonitis acuminata Mass.[16]
• Stemonitis ferruginea Ehrenb.[16]
• Stemonitis friesiana de Bary.[16]
• Stemonitis fusca Roth.[16]
• Stemonitis herbatica Peck.[16]
• Stemonitis maxima Mass.[16]
• Stemonitis pallida Wingate.[16]
• Stemonitis splendens Rost.[16]
• Stemonitis splendens var. webberi Lister.[16]

Genus: Trichia

• Trichia affinis de Bary[17]
• Trichia balfourii Mass.[17]
• Trichia botrytis Pers.[17]
• Trichia faboginea Pers.[17]
• Trichia fragilis Rost.[17]
• Trichia persimilis Karst.[17]
• Trichia scabra Rost.[17]
• Trichia turbinata Sow.[17]
• Trichia varia Pers.[17]

Family: Trichiaceae[17]

Genus: Tubifera (Slime moulds)

• Tubifera ferruginosa Gmel.[17]