Buellia albula (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.

Details

Name scientific

Buellia albula (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2: 1894 (1894)

Preferred name

Buellia albula (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.

Taxonomy reference

Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 1. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Linked name

Buellia albula (Nyl.) Müll. Arg. 1894

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

Australasian

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Müll.Arg.

Original authors

Nyl.

Authors

(Nyl.) Müll.Arg.

Publication place

Müller Argoviensis, J. 1894: Conspectus systematicus lichenum Novae Zelandiae. Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier 2(app. 1): 1–114.

Year published

1894

Publication page

1894

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lecidea albula Nyl.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Buellia albula

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Physciaceae

Genus

Buellia

Species

albula

Synonyms

Descriptions

Galloway, D. J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Government Printer, Wellington.

Buellia rorida Hellb.

Description

Thallus continuous to areolate, grey-white, smooth to minutely roughened, areolae angular, 0.2-0.5(-1.0) mm diam., saxicolous. Apothecia sessile, scattered, plane to convex, white-pruinose at first then matt, black, carbonaceous and glabrous, margins concolorous with thallus, soon disappearing. Epithecium pale yellow-brown. Hypothecium brownish to yellow-brown. Paraphyses swollen and yellow-brown at apices. Ascospores biseriate, oval to broadly ellipsoid, apices pointed or rounded, straight, not constricted at septum, 12-15 × 5.1-9 µm.