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Cladonia ustulata (Hook.f. & Taylor) Leight.

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Cladonia ustulata (Hook.f. & Taylor) Leight., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 19: 109 (1867)
Cladonia ustulata (Hook.f. & Taylor) Leight.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Austral

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(Hook.f. & Taylor) Leight.
Hook.f. & Taylor
Leight.
1867
109
ICN
species
Cladonia ustulata

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ustulata

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Primary squamules persistent or disappearing, small to medium, 1-2mm long and 0.5-0.7 mm diam., incised, laciniate or crenate, flat, sparse or crowded, upper surface glaucescent or whitish-glaucescent, lower side whitish, yellowish at base, without soredia or slightly granular below. Podetia growing from upper surface of primary squamules, dying below, 15-60 mm tall, 1-2 mm diam., subcylindrical, cups narrow to gradually dilated, regular or oblique, margins subentire to denate-proliferate, proliferations subsolitary or few, apices with cups or blunt, cups commonly in 2-3 tiers, commonly elongated from 15-40 mm, simple or proliferating from cup margins or arising rarely from side branches, imperforate, aggregated, erect. Cortex densely verrucose-isidiate or squamulose-furfuraceous, soredial granules thickly verrucuse and squamulose, dispersed or ± continuous towards base, yellowish-white or pale glaucescent,decorticate areas whitish, brownish and ± continuously corticate at base. Apothecia red, at tips of podetia 1-4 mm diam., solitary or ± confluent, pectinate. Chemistry: Cortex K+ yellow, KC-, Pd+ yellow. Thamnolic and usnic acids.

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Cladonia subdigitata Nyl.
Cladonia ustulata (Hook.f. & Taylor) Leight.
Cladonia subdigitata var. polydactyloides Nyl.
Cladonia ustulata (Hook.f. & Taylor) Leight.
Cladonia ustulata (Hook.f. & Taylor) Leight.
Cladonia ustulata (Hook.f. & Taylor) Leight.
Cladonia ustulata (Hook.f. & Taylor) Leight.

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New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Cladonia ustulata (Hook.f. & Taylor) Leight.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Cladonia ustulata (Hook.f. & Taylor) Leight.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Cladonia ustulata (Hook.f. & Taylor) Leight.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Cladonia ustulata (Hook.f. & Taylor) Leight.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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1a31f2fc-17c7-4511-9082-0c5505480af6
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
10 December 2021
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