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Megaspora verrucosa (Ach.) Hafellner & V.Wirth

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Megaspora verrucosa (Ach.) Hafellner & V.Wirth
Megaspora verrucosa (Ach.) Hafellner & V.Wirth

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Bipolar

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(Ach.) Hafellner & V.Wirth
Ach.
Hafellner & V.Wirth
1987
511
ICN
species
Megaspora verrucosa

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verrucosa

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Thallus whitish or glaucous-grey, of roughened ± pruinose, glistening, confluent granules, or ± squamulose or roughened-globose, or granular, spreading in patches on soil or mosses or decaying vegetation, continuous, 1-5 cm diam. Apothecia almost totally immersed in thalline granules, poriform, -like, opening and expanding at maturity into a small, concave, black, matt epruinose disc, 0.5-1 mm diam., margins thick, expanded warted-scabrid, white-pruinose. Ascospores 8 per ascus, shortly ellipsoid, (36-)50-62 × 24-30 µm, with a thick epispore.

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Megaspora verrucosa (Ach.) Hafellner & V.Wirth
Megaspora verrucosa (Ach.) Hafellner & V.Wirth
Pachyospora verrucosa (Ach.) A.Massal.
Megaspora verrucosa (Ach.) Hafellner & V.Wirth
Urceolaria verrrucos Ach.
Megaspora verrucosa (Ach.) Hafellner & V.Wirth

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Megaspora verrucosa (Ach.) Hafellner & V.Wirth
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Megaspora verrucosa (Ach.) Hafellner & V.Wirth
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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1f2cb265-f1af-44c2-8249-ed85c9226c23
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
10 June 2019
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