Polychidium (Ach.) Gray
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Polychidium (Ach.) Gray (1821)
Polychidium (Ach.) Gray
Biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Genus of 4 species; one occurs in New Zealand
Nomenclature
(Ach.) Gray
Ach.
Gray
1821
ICN
genus
Polychidium
Classification
Subordinates
Associations
Descriptions
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.
Taxonomic concepts
Collections
Metadata
2c9adb66-1c85-4191-b3c0-6cc480a0fa65
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
25 May 2010