Nov. 24, 2011- News release- newly reported species- a Physarum whose plasmodiocarp have perpendicular marks before it "zips open" (lengthwise ) (like P. bivalve except for the perpendicular marks prior to opening), grows in a dead leaf; a Comatrichia sp. etc. with black "inky" in appearance stalk, grows in a dead stem...etc.

07/15/2008~NEW~Pls. visit the Myxomycetes in Panay Island (in progress)

*The Electronic Journal of Tropical Lichenology and Myxomycetology will soon be operational. Please visit this web site as frequently as possible. If you have any questions, please send an email to lichens_2001@yahoo.com. Thanks.


This Eumycetozoan Research Project web page is dedicated to the species of Myxomycetes and other eumycetozoans which are found in the Philippine archipelago and managed by Prof. Isidro T. Savillo. Taxonomic identification  and descriptions of their habitats will be posted in this webpage.

Prof. Isidro T. Savillo (use google's  internet explorer to search for this position):  is a Research Associate in the PBI (Planetary Biodiversity Inventory) Global Biodiversity of Eumycetozoan Project of  Dr. Steven Stephenson.   At present, Dr. Stephenson is a Research Professor and PBI Project Director in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark.

September 23, 2003:

Congratulations for the official approval of the project, PBI:Global Biodiversity of Eumycetozoans!!!*

* One of the Four Research Projects to first receive the prestigious Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI) Award/Grant being funded by the National Science Foundation, and All Species Foundation.

PBI: Global Biodiversity of Eumycetozoans

European Mycological Association: Web Sites On Myxomycetes

Key to the Eumycetozoan Genera of the Philippines...soon!



Web Page constructed/modified, respectively : July, 2003, May 25, 2005 and Dec. 24, 2006

Guide to Myxomycetes

INTERNET DIRECTORY FOR BOTANY  NEW!!!

World Taxonomist Database NEW!!!

FUNGI: THAILAND (Philippine Myxomycetes Web Page Featured)

*6/07~Mangrove Myxomycete (pls. see top specimen)- specimen inside a suspended dead branch of a living mangrove tree forcibly opened to show details. Observe the thinner top whitish portion of the cortex in one aethallium. The spores were whitish pale yellow to pink. The pseudocapillitial threads most likely resembled that of Lycogala species. At the eye level of observation, this species has small size and conical shape which satisfies L. conicum. Otherwise, a savilloensis? will do to whatever genus if not new.
11/07~ The Specimens are now flattened and represented by torn, shrunken, velvety, papery cortices but still attached.

Where did the flattened tubes go? Upon microscopic examination flattened empty tubes and few pseudocapillitial threads that were conspicuously horny (like that of Lycogala species) were revealed. The specimens were stored in a dry place. As observed locally, the tropical specimens are not as colorful or iridescent compared to the specimens of the Smokey Mountains [my Diachea is drab brown], etc. and there may even be morphological differences ("organization" of the cortex, etc.). The use of Illustrations in the Eumycetozoan Project is in this way an advantage because of the selected but conspicuous disparity among Eumycetozoans worldwide. It is true that Myxomycetes are rare and very few in a Mangrove Forest. It's a pin in a haystack.

   As part of my research abstract, Myxomycetes in Mangroves at the 2007 Society of Wetland Scientists International Conference at the Sacramento Convention Center, California.."...The ecological significance of myxomycetes in mangroves may never have been elucidated because if ever there are enzymatic studies they are maybe very much limited in publication and presentation", This will serve as an eye opener for budding young scientists to design and work out an experimental methodology to determine the enzymatic characteristics of myxomycetes which could clearly ascertain its ecological significance in nature. As what I further stated on plasmodial slime mold reproduction during my presentation, "The spore formation goes a long way compared to that of deuteromycetes" whereby this may serve as a barrier but I really don't think it will be for our young budding scientists.