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Lecanactis totarae Zahlbr.

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Lecanactis totarae Zahlbr., Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Kl., Denkschr. 104: 261 (1941)
Lecanactis totarae Zahlbr.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Zahlbr.
Zahlbr.
1941
261
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Lecanactis totarae Zahlbr.
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Lecanactis totarae

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totarae

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Lecanactis totarae Zahlbr.

Thallus dingy greenish-white, thin, to 4 cm diam., closely attached to substrate in narrow bands, corticolous. Upper surface uneven, verrucose in parts, smooth and shining in others, sometimes wanting. Apothecia biatorine, sessile, constricted at base, often crowded and distorted through mutual pressure, round to irregular, to 1 mm diam., plane at first, with a thin, pale margin, becoming convex and immarginate at maturity, disc greyish-brown to brown-pink with a dense white pruina. Hymenium brown black near epithecium, elsewhere colourless 110-122 µm tall. Hypothecium brown-black. Asci clavate, apices rounded. Ascospores biseriate, fusiform with narrow apices, curved, 3-septate, 18-21 × 3.5-4 µm. Chemistry: Schizopeltic acid and two unidentified compounds (UV+ violet).

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Lecanactis totarae Zahlbr.
Lecanactis totarae Zahlbr.
Lecanactis totarae Zahlbr.
Lecanactis totarae Zahlbr.
Lecanactis totarae Zahlbr.

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Lecanactis totarae Zahlbr.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
16 September 2009
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