Physarum cinereum

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| image = Physarum cinereum 90004.jpg

| genus = Physarum

| species = cinereum

| authority = (Batsch) Pers. (1794)

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| synonyms = *Lycoperdon cinereum Batsch (1783)

Didymium cinereum (Batsch) Fr. (1822 (1829)
Badhamia cinerea (Batsch) J.Kickx f. (1867)
Lignydium cinereum (Batsch) Kuntze (1898)

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Physarum cinereum is a slime mold that grows on turfgrass or beet{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} but is not a pathogen.

Taxonomy

The species was originally named Lycoperdon cinereum by August Johann Georg Karl Batsch in 1783; Christiaan Hendrik Persoon transferred it to Physarum in 1794.

References

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{{cite book |author=Batsch AJGK |title=Elenchus fungorum |trans-title=Discussion of Fungi |year=1783 |page=155 |language=la}}

{{cite web |title=Physarum cinereum (Batsch) Pers. 1794 |url=http://www.mycobank.org/BioloMICS.aspx?Table=Mycobank&Rec=122561&Fields=All |publisher=MycoBank. International Mycological Association |access-date=2014-07-03}}

{{cite book |vauthors=Vargas JM, Vargas JM Jr |title=Management of Turfgrass Diseases |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=of2Kw7hh6jgC&pg=PA1 |year=1994 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-56670-046-7 |page=1}}

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Category:Root vegetable diseases

Category:Turfgrass diseases

Category:Taxa named by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon

Category:Physaraceae

Category:Amoebozoa species