Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
Is NZ relevant
This is the current name
This record has collections
This record has descriptions
This is indigenous

Click to collapse Details Info

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

(Nyl.) Du Rietz
Nyl.
Du Rietz
1926
91
ICN
species
Usnea ciliata

Click to collapse Classification Info

ciliata

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

Thallus fruticose, erect, tufted to spreading, to 9 cm tall. Branches 2-3 mm wide at base, weakly dichotomously to richly branching above. Surface yellow to brown-red at base, often with black cracks, becoming conspicuously blackened or yellow-grey or bluish-purple above with conspicuous black bands, not papillate or sorediate, smooth, waxy and shining, often ± strongly faveolate. Apothecia frequent, lateral on branches, disc bluish-black, margins smooth, concolorous with thallus, with ray-like branchlets, black, few to many, thalline exciple smooth. Chemistry: Cortex K-; medulla K+ yellow-red, C-, KC+ red, Pd+ orange-red. Norstictic, ± protocetraric, salazinic and usnic acids.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Neuropogon ciliatus (Nyl.) Kremp.
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
Neuropogon melaxanthus var. ciliatus Nyl.
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
Usnea melaxantha var. ciliata (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz

Click to collapse Collections Info

New Zealand
Otago Land District
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
New Zealand
Southland Land District

Click to collapse Metadata Info

065008e8-a60a-463c-b9d9-6bd788402495
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 December 2004
15 February 2016
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top