Phyllopsora microdactyla (C.Knight) D.J.Galloway

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Name scientific

Phyllopsora microdactyla (C.Knight) D.J.Galloway, New Zealand J. Bot. 21: 196 (1983)

Preferred name

Phyllopsora microdactyla (C.Knight) D.J.Galloway

Taxonomy reference

Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 2. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Linked name

Phyllopsora microdactyla (C.Knight) D.J.Galloway

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

Endemic

Nomenclature

Authors

(C.Knight) D.J.Galloway

Original authors

C.Knight

Combination authors

D.J.Galloway

Publication place

Galloway, D.J. 1983: New taxa in the New Zealand lichen flora. New Zealand Journal of Botany 21(2): 191–200.

Year published

1983

Publication page

196

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lecidea microdactyla C.Knight

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Phyllopsora microdactyla

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Bacidiaceae

Genus

Phyllopsora

Species

microdactyla

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Parmeliella mucorina Zahlbr.

Description

Thallus ± crustose, minutely granular, pulverulent, squamulose, spreading, to 5 cm diam., closely attached, bordered by a pale buff, byssoid prothallus, corticolous or muscicolous. Squamules minute, granular to 2 mm wide, ± convex, densely imbricate to areolate-diffract, brownish-grey or olivaceous. Apothecia sparse, convex, to 1.2 mm diam., waxy, red-brown to blackened, proper margin thin, pale, soon occluded. Ascospores not seen.

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

Phyllopsora microdactyla (C.Knight) D.J.Galloway

Description

Thallus pale greenish-grey, floccose-coralline, granular to microphylline, squamules digitate, many resembling isidia, c. 0.1 mm wide, continuous or ± diffract-areolate centrally, on a pale, byssoid prothallus. Apothecia scattered, solitary, yellowish-brown, convex. Ascospores 8 per ascus, biseriate, cylindrical-ellipsoid (10-)15-21 × 3.4 µm.