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Calicium glaucellum Ach.

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Calicium glaucellum Ach., Methodus (Acharius) 97 (1803)
Calicium glaucellum Ach.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Cosmopolitan

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Ach.
Ach.
1803
97
ICN
Calicium glaucellum Ach.
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Calicium glaucellum

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glaucellum

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Calicium glaucellum Ach.

Thallus immersed or rarely episubstratic, dark greyish-green, verrucose, very thin. Apothecia 0.5-0.9 mm high, with a faint greyish pruina at edge of excipulum on lower part of capitulum, or sometimes epruinose, 3-6 times as high as width of stalk. All parts of the apothecium I-. Capitulum obovoid to lenticular, 0.23-0.34 mm diam. Excipulum dark brown to aeruginose, elongated to almost isodiametric sclerotized hyphae, paler in outer part, and ± distinctly anticlinally arranged. Hypothecium dark brown with flat or slightly convex upper surface. Stalk shining, black, epruinose, 0.11-0.17 mm diam., consisting of blackish-brown to dark aeruginose, irregularly interwoven and strongly sclerotized hyphae, becoming pale towards surface. Outermost gelatinous layer I-. Asci cylindrical with uniseriate spores, 35-41 × 3.5-4.5 µm. Ascospores ellipsoid, 9-13 × 5-6.5 µm with irregular ornamentation of short ridges and irregular cracks. Chemistry: No secondary substances identified.

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Calicium glaucellum Ach.
Calicium glaucellum Ach.
Calicium glaucellum Ach.
Calicium glaucellum Ach.
Calicium glaucellum Ach.

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1 January 2000
20 April 2020
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