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Usnea arida Motyka

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Usnea arida Motyka, Usnea 2(1), 492–493 (1937)
Usnea arida Motyka

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Indigenous
Wild
New Zealand
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Listed in D.J. Galloway's unpublished checklist of Jan 2014

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Motyka
Motyka
1937
492–493
ICN
Usnea arida Motyka
species
Usnea arida

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arida

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Usnea arida Motyka

Thallus fruticose to subpendulous, spreading from base, 5-10 cm tall, green to yellowish-green, often brownish-red in parts, soft and flaccid when wet, irregularly subdichotomously branching, corticolous. Branches 0.5-2.5 mm thick, inflated, secondary branches numerous, often articulate-cracked at branch points, cortex glossy especially towards base, papillate, rarely with small, white, scattered, punctate pseudocyphellae, possibly formed through abrasion of papillae, sorediate, with many lateral fibrils, pseudoisidia and spinules, giving the plant a bristling appearance. Soredia discrete or crowded, often becoming pseudoisidiate, spinulose. Apothecia not seen. Chemistry: Salazinic, norstictic and usnic acids.

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Usnea arida Motyka
Usnea arida Motyka
Usnea arida Motyka
Usnea arida Motyka
Usnea arida Motyka
Usnea arida Motyka

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Usnea arida Motyka
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Usnea arida Motyka
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Usnea arida Motyka
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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223d83e2-ea3b-43b5-b5d7-58bb633f59a1
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1 January 2000
24 March 2023
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