Phlyctella megalospora P.James
Details
Phlyctella megalospora P.James in Galloway, New Zealand J. Bot. 21: 195 (1983)
Nomenclature
P.James
P.James
1983
195
ICN
Phlyctella megalospora P.James
species
Phlyctella megalospora
Classification
Descriptions
Phlyctella megalospora P.James
Thallus in irregular, conspicuous patches, spreading over bryophytes on bark or rock, 5-10(-15) cm diam. Surface arachnoid-byssoid, white below and at margins, overlain with coarse to fine, aeruginose-green to green-white contiguous granules, not areolate-cracked. Photobiont green, unicellular cells 2-5 µm diam. Apothecia numerous, inapparent, solitary or rarely 2-confluent, rounded or irregular, 0.5-1.2 mm diam., in subglobose to ± flattened pustules, margins irregular, granular, uneven, concolorous or paler than disc, disc plane or ± convex, grey, white-pulverulent, granular and pruinose. Epithecium minutely granular, ± grey-opaque. Hymenium to 400 µm tall. Paraphyses very numerous, c. 1 µm thick, forming a densely anastomosing network. Asci thin-walled, 400 × 100 µm. Ascospores 1 per ascus, large, oblong-ellipsoid with rounded apices, 17-21(-23)-septate, cells thin-walled, lenticular, 285-390 × 79-95 µm. Chemistry: Atranorin, psoromic, neopsoromic and protocetraric ± acids.
Taxonomic concepts
Phlyctella megalospora P.James
Phlyctella megalospora P.James
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scientific name
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