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Polychidium (Ach.) Gray

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This is indigenous

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Genus of 4 species; one occurs in New Zealand

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(Ach.) Gray
Ach.
Gray
1821
ICN
genus
Polychidium

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Polychidium

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Polychidium (Ach.) Gray

Thallus fruticose, heteromerous, greenish-blue to brownish, dichotomously branching, dendroid and often complex, thicker, secondary branches towards base, thinner, terete, anastomosing branches at apices, corticolous. Photobiont blue-green or . Apothecia red-brown, without a thalline margin. Ascospores 8 per ascus, colourless, polymorphic, ellipsoid to spindle-shaped, thin or thick-walled, 1- or 2- septate.

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Polychidium (Ach.) Gray
Polychidium (Ach.) Gray
Polychidium (Ach.) Gray
Polychidium (Ach.) Gray
Polychidium (Ach.) Gray

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Polychidium (Ach.) Gray
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Polychidium (Ach.) Gray
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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2c9adb66-1c85-4191-b3c0-6cc480a0fa65
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
25 May 2010
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