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Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780

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Hill ex F.H. Wigg.
F.H. Wigg.
1780
109
ICN
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
genus
Arcyria

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Arcyria

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Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780

Fruiting body a sessile or stalked sporangium, usually more than 0.5 mm tall, sterile filaments amongst the spores highly sculptured, spore mass red, yellow or pale grey. After the wall of the fruiting body breaks the elastic filaments amongst the spores expand in a tangled mass of very fine filaments to often twice the size of the original sporangium. Fourteen species in New Zealand.

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Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780

With the characteristics of the family.
The genus Arcyria contains at least 40 species (Lado 2001), and 14 of these are known from New Zealand.

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Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. (1780)
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg.
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. (1780)
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. (1780)

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Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
New Zealand
Bay of Plenty
Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780
New Zealand
Kermadec Islands

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1cb17df1-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
scientific name
Names_Fungi
1 January 2001
10 September 2020
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