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Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.

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Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb. (1855)
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Cosmopolitan

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(Rabenh.) Körb.
Rabenh.
Körb.
1855
420
ICN
species
Leptogium cyanescens

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cyanescens

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Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.

Thallus lobate, flat, attached loosely to substrate by scattered tufts of hairs, spreading, orbicular to irregular, 1-5(-8) cm diam., greyish-blue to olive greenish, corticolous. Lobes orbicular, 2-4 mm wide, margins entire, wavy, ± ascending to dentate-isidiate. Upper surface smooth to occasionally slightly roughened, not wrinkled or plicate, isidiate. Isidia abundant, laminal, granular-furfuraceous, cylindrical to clavate to lobulate, often branching, concolorous with thallus. Lower surface glabrous, smooth, concolorous with upper surface or paler, to ± greyish-fawn. Apothecia rare, sessile, to subpedicellate, laminal, 0.5-2 mm diam., disc concave to convex, pale brown to red-brown, thalline exciple entire to isidiate, pale grey to fawn. Ascospores ellipsoid, apices rounded or pointed, 18-27 × 6-10 µm.

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Collema cyanescens Rabenh.
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
Leptogium rigens Nyl.
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.

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Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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14f998ff-1a4a-4237-aa9e-c8d8e817b184
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
18 March 2009
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