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Licea castanea G. Lister 1911

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Licea castanea G. Lister, J. Bot. 49 61 (1911)
Licea castanea G. Lister 1911

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Present
New Zealand
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G. Lister
G. Lister
1911
61
ICN
Licea castanea G. Lister 1911
Scotland
species
Licea castanea

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castanea

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Licea castanea G. Lister 1911

 DWM 3062.
 Fruiting body a sessile sporangium (or occasionally somewhat subplasmodiocarpous), scattered, round-pulvinate to elongated, at first chestnut or pale brown, becoming blackish brown with age, smooth or wrinkled, 0.1–0.9 mm long and 0.1–0.4 mm wide. Peridium somewhat cartilaginous, nearly colourless or pale brown, often overlaid by a more or less continuous layer of dark granules, dehiscence along definite preformed sutures forming plates or stellate lobes whose margins are often marked with a row of minute warts about 1 µm in diameter. Spores pallid to brown in mass, pale yellow to pale brown by transmitted light, smooth or nearly so, paler on one side where the walls are thinner, 9–11 µm in diameter. Plasmodium hyaline, then brown
 Licea castanea is known from Asia, Europe, and North America (Martin & Alexopoulos 1969, Yamamoto 1998). First reported from New Zealand by Mitchell (1992), based on a specimen collected from the bark of Hoheria sp. in North Canterbury.
 Bark of living trees; also sometimes occurring on dead wood
 Martin & Alexopoulos (1969), Nannenga-Bremekamp (1991), Neubert et al. (1993), Lado & Pando (1997), Ing (1999).
The yellow-brown to chestnut colour of the sporangium and the smooth spores from other similar species of Licea.

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Licea castanea G. Lister 1911
Licea castanea G. Lister (1911)
Licea castanea G. Lister 1911
Licea castanea G. Lister (1911)
Licea castanea G. Lister 1911
Licea castanea G. Lister (1911)
Licea castanea G. Lister 1911
Licea castanea G. Lister (1911)

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1cb1d074-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
scientific name
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1 March 1994
21 November 2001
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