Lecidea psephota Tuck.

Details

Name scientific

Lecidea psephota Tuck. (1877)

Preferred name

Lambiella psephota (Tuck.) Hertel

Taxonomy reference

Kantvilas, G. 2022: The genus Lambiella Hertel (lichenised fungi) in Tasmania: new combinations, new species and a revised key. PhytoKeys 549(2): 209–2018.

Nomenclature

Authors

Tuck.

Original authors

Tuck.

Year published

1877

Publication page

181

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lecidea psephota Tuck.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Lecidea psephota

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Lecideaceae

Genus

Lecidea

Species

psephota

Descriptions

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

Lecidea psephota Tuck.

Description

Thallus olive or mottled greyish-fawn, K+ yellow or red, of small, bullate squamules, scattered or ± contiguous, convex to flattened, minute. Apothecia plane or subconvex-undulate, densely carbonaceous-black, matt, wrinkled or minutely roughened, margins persistent, black, raised, entire to crenulate, 0.1-0.8 mm diam. Epithecium green-black (purple in K), 21-30 µm thick. Hymenium colourless 60-80 µm tall. Hypothecium brown-black. Ascospores oval ellipsoid, 12.5-18 × 6-8.5 µm.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Lecidea psephota Tuck.

Lecidea psephota Tuck.

Galloway, D. J. (1985)

Lecidea psephota Tuck.

Lecidea psephota Tuck.

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

Rimularia psephota (Tuck.) Hertel & Rambold

Lecidea psephota Tuck.

Lecidea psephota Tuck.

Kantvilas, G. (2022)

Lambiella psephota (Tuck.) Hertel

Metadata

Record id

13130458-8d92-4f8c-a440-7bca087f6f82

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

13 April 2006

Date last updated

11 April 2024

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