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Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg.

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Müll.Arg.
Müll.Arg.
1896
89
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Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg.
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Ramalea cochleata

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cochleata

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Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg.

Primary thallus squamulose, squamules scattered to ± imbricate-crowded, terricolous. Squamules 0.2-2 mm wide and to 3.5 mm long, plane to subconvex, spathulate or cuneate, margins entire or minutelycrenulate or occasionally ± bifurcate, ± ascending, not noticeably thickened. Upper surface pale yellow-green to olivaceous or brownish, smooth, matt, minutely maculate (×10 lens). Lower surface white, arachnoid. Pseudopodetia 2-8(-10) mm tall, concolorous with squamules or paler, ± minutely maculate, arising from margins of squamules, 0.1-0.5 mm diam. at base and there ± terete, expanding above to 1-2 mm diam., fissured-clathrate towards apices, exposing white medullary hyphae. Apothecia terminal, clustered-peltate, 0.05-0.3(-0.8) mm diam., disc round to irregular, plane to subconvex, brown-pink, sometimes ± white-pruinose, margins entire to crenulate, paler than disc, persistent. Ascospores simple, 6-9 × 3-4 µm. Chemistry: Cortex K-, KC+, yellow; medulla K-, C-, Pd-. Usnic acid.

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Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg.
Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg.
Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg.
Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg.

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1 January 2000
17 November 2010
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