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Cetraria aculeata (Schreb.) Fr.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Bipolar

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(Schreb.) Fr.
Schreb.
Fr.
1826
26
ICN
species
Cetraria aculeata

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aculeata

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Thallus fruticose, shrubby, erect, forming clumps 3-10 cm tall, loosely attached to the substrate and often dying below, pseudopodetia solid, brittle when dry, terricolous or muscicolous. Surface glossy, greyish-brown to brown or dark reddish-brown or blackened. Branches 1-2 mm thick, terete or partly deflated-angular, repeatedly branched, margins with small, thorny spines. Apothecia rare, terminal, concolorous with thallus, with subulate cilia on the thalline margin. Ascospores ellipsoid, minute, 5-9 × 3-4 µm. Chemistry: medulla K-, C-, KC-, Pd-. Rangiformic acid.

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Cetraria aculeata (Schreb.) Fr.
Cetraria aculeata (Schreb.) Fr.
Cetraria aculeata (Schreb.) Fr.
Coelocaulon aculeatum (Schreber) Link
Cetraria aculeata (Schreb.) Fr.
Lichen aculeata Schreb.
Cetraria aculeata (Schreb.) Fr.

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Cetraria aculeata (Schreb.) Fr.
New Zealand
Otago Land District

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10e92b03-85d5-4d2c-a1bf-73825fcfea09
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 August 2011
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