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Myxomycetes G. Winter, Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl., Edn 2 (Leipzig) 1.1: 32 (1880) [1884]

Editorial comment:
Kreisel (1969) cites the author as 'Link ex Haeckel' - Link (1833: 405) as suborder, Haeckel (Gen. Morph. 2: xxvi, 1866) as 'stamm'. Wallroth (Fl. Crypt. Germ. 2: xxv, 1833) introduces the name at the rank of Ordo within the Class Fungi. During the middle of the 18th century it is Fries's term, Myxogastres, which predominates. Cooke (Myxomycetes of Great Britain: 1, 1877) uses the name at an unspecified supra-ordinal rank based on Wallroth's original coining of the name. In 1871 Cooke (Handb. Brit. Fungi) gives the Myxogastres as an Ordo in the 'family' Gasteromycetes. Definitely stated to be a class by Winter (1881). Martin et al. (1983) prefer to base the class on Link (1833), although later than Wallroth, the concept is closer to the 'modern' sense of Myxomycetes. Traub (1971: 144) attributes Haeckel's name at the rank of phylum and typifies it with the family Liceaceae

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