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Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James

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Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James, Lichenologist 12: 301 (1980)
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Palaeotropical

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(Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Nyl.
D.J.Galloway & P.James
1980
301
ICN
species
Pseudocyphellaria multifida

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multifida

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Thallus small, delicate, entangled-complicate, spreading, 5(-10) cm diam. Lobes complexly branched, entangled-imbricate, narrow, 1-3 mm wide and 4-10 mm long, di- or trichotomously branching at centre, becoming narrower and ± lobulate-phyllidiate at margins, sinuses semicircular. Upper surface bright lettuce-green when wet, pale yellowish-green or fawn when dry, shining, smooth, very slightly faveolate or wrinkled, uneven, without soredia, isidia, maculae or pseudocyphellae. Medulla white. Photobiont green. Lower surface glabrous, white, shining at margins, yellowish-brown, ± costate centrally, thinly tomentose centrally, tomentum pale buff, thin, rather ragged. Pseudocyphellae minute, fleck-like, white, punctiform, conspicuous at or near lobe margins, flat, immarginate. Apothecia submarginal or laminal, sparse to frequent, sessile to subpedicellate, disc pale yellowish-red or brownish, 2-4 mm diam., smooth, matt, plane or subconcave, margins pale flesh-coloured, inflexed at first, becoming crenulate-dentate, thalline exciple pale, verrucose-areolate. Ascospores colourless to pale brown, oblong-fusiform, 1-3-septate, 22-30 × 7-9 µm. Chemistry: 7β-Acetoxyhopan-22-ol, hopane-15α,22-diol, and hopane-7β-22- diol (tr.).

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Cyanisticta subvariabilis (Nyl.) C.W.Dodge
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Lobaria subvariabilis (Nyl.) Hellb.
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Pseudocyphellaria subvariabilis (Nyl.) Vain.
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Sticta multifida Nyl.
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Sticta psilophylla f. amphicarpa Müll.Arg.
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Sticta subvariabilis Nyl.
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James

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Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Pseudocyphellaria multifida (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Westland Land District
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

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1 January 2000
11 June 2010
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