Scytinium plicatile (Ach.) Otálora, P.M.Jørg. & Wedin

Details

Name scientific

Scytinium plicatile (Ach.) Otálora, P.M.Jørg. & Wedin, Fungal Diversity 64: 291 (2014)

Preferred name

Scytinium plicatile (Ach.) Otálora, P.M.Jørg. & Wedin

Linked name

Scytinium plicatile

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Synonym, Leptogium plicatile, treated by GAlloway (2007) as non-endemic.

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Otálora, P.M.Jørg. & Wedin

Original authors

Ach.

Authors

(Ach.) Otálora, P.M.Jørg. & Wedin

Publication place

Otálora, M.A.G.; Jørgensen, P.M.; Wedin, M. 2014: A revised generic classification of the jelly lichens, Collemataceae. Fungal Diversity 64(1): 275–293.

Year published

2014

Publication page

291

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lichen plicatilis Ach.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Scytinium plicatile

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Collemataceae

Genus

Scytinium

Species

plicatile

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Leptogium plicatile (Ach.) Leight.

Description

Thallus small, irregularly pulvinate to 1 cm diam., saxicolous, irregularly lobed, dark brown to black. Lobes elongate, rounded to flattened, margins entire, to 1 mm wide, surface granular-isidiate, irregularly wrinkled-plicate. Apothecia common, sessile, laminal, 0.5-1 mm diam., disc concave, brown to dark red-brown, thalline exciple entire, concolorous with thallus. Ascospores ellipsoid, apices rounded to pointed, 3-septate to submuriform, 20-24 × 7-9 µm.