{{Short description|Genus of slime moulds}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Diderma umbilicatum 002.jpg | image_caption = ''Diderma umbilicatum'' | taxon = Diderma | authority = Pers. | type_species = ''Diderma globosum'' |type_species_authority = Pers. }}
'''''Diderma''''' is a genus of slime molds in the family Didymiaceae.<ref name="LeontyevSchnittler2019"/> The genus was first described by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1794,<ref name="persoon">{{cite journal|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433011453051&view=1up&seq=81&skin=2021&q1=Neuer%20Versuch%20einer%20systematischen%20Eintheilung%20der%20Schw%C3%A4mme|author=Persoon, C.H. |date=1794|title= Neuer Versuch einer systematischen Eintheilung der Schwämme|journal=Neues Magazin für die Botanik|volume= 1}}</ref> and the type species is ''Diderma globosum''.<ref name="if">{{Cite web|title=Index Fungorum - Names Record: ''Diderma''|url=http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=12073|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-20|website=www.indexfungorum.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107022313/http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=12073 |archive-date=2021-01-07 }}</ref>
The genus contains over 200 taxa, and includes:
* ''Diderma stellulum''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Index Fungorum - Names Record: ''Diderma stellulum''|url=http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=135540|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-20|website=www.indexfungorum.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119050056/http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=135540 |archive-date=2022-01-19 }}</ref> * ''Diderma subasteroides''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Index Fungorum - Names Record: ''Diderma subasteroides''|url=http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=313034|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-20|website=www.indexfungorum.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119055602/http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=313034 |archive-date=2022-01-19 }}</ref>
* ''Diderma cinereum'' * ''Diderma effusum'' * ''Diderma floriforme'' *''Diderma globosum'' * ''Diderma testaceum'' * ''Diderma umbilicatum''
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="LeontyevSchnittler2019">{{cite journal|last1=Leontyev|first1=Dmitry V.|last2=Schnittler|first2=Martin|last3=Stephenson|first3=Steven L.|last4=Novozhilov|first4=Yuri K.|last5=Shchepin|first5=Oleg N.|title=Towards a phylogenetic classification of the Myxomycetes|journal=Phytotaxa|volume=399|issue=3|year=2019|pages=209|issn=1179-3163|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.399.3.5|bibcode=2019Phytx.399..209L |s2cid=108783142}}</ref>
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Category:Eumycetozoa genera Category:Myxogastria Category:Taxa described in 1794 Category:Taxa named by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon
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