Lecanactis Körb.
Details
Details
Lecanactis Körb., Syst. Lich. Germ. 275 (1855)
Lecanactis Körb.
Biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Cosmopolitan genus of c. 24 species; 6 species in New Zealand
Nomenclature
Körb.
Körb.
1855
275
conserved
ICN
Lecanactis Körb.
genus
Lecanactis
Classification
Subordinates
- Lecanactis abietina
- Lecanactis citrina
- Lecanactis exaltata
- Lecanactis exigua
- Lecanactis flava
- Lecanactis latispora
- Lecanactis mecistospora
- Lecanactis mollis
- Lecanactis neozelandica
- Lecanactis pallens
- Lecanactis pleistophragmoides
- Lecanactis redingeri
- Lecanactis subfarinosa
- Lecanactis tibelliana
- Lecanactis totarae
Synonyms
Descriptions
Lecanactis Körb.
Thallus crustose, mostly homoiomerous, attached to substrate by medullary hyphae, corticolous or saxicolous. Photobiont green, , orange-yellow when freshly gathered material is scratched. Apothecia innate to sessile, rounded, with a cupular, carbonaceous proper margin. Epithecium granular, pigmented olive-green to brown-black. Hypothecium brownish-black. Asci clavate, 8-spored. Ascospores fusiform or acicular, 3-5(-35)-septate, colourless.
Thallus felted, fluffy or rather woolly, rather loosely organised, to 10 cm diam., whitish, greyish or yellowish-white, corticolous or muscicolous. Photobiont green, . Apothecia lecanorine frequent to absent, laminal, to 2 mm diam., subpedicellate, disc usually white-pruinose, margins concolorous with disc. Ascospores 8 per ascus, biseriate, colourless, fusiform, 5-7-septate.
Taxonomic concepts
Collections
Metadata
015aaca6-639e-438e-9b8e-7897991cf09a
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
13 April 2021
