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Lepra truncata (Kremp.) A.W.Archer & Elix

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Lepra truncata (Kremp.) A.W.Archer & Elix, Australas. Lichenol. 82: 133 (2018)
Lepra truncata (Kremp.) A.W.Archer & Elix

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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(Kremp.) A.W.Archer & Elix
Kremp.
A.W.Archer & Elix
2018
133
ICN
species
Lepra truncata

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truncata

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Thallus in patches or bands, 3-8(-20) cm diam., pale olivaceous-grey to grey-white, matt or shining, irregularly wrinkled-plicate or ridged, irregularly cracked to ± areolate. Apothecia sessile, constricted at base 0.5-2.5 mm diam., ± hemispherical at maturity, blister-like at first becoming erose-white-sorediate, disc subconcave to plane, often fissured,pale buff to dark brown or grey, densely white-pruinose, pruina granular, margins thick, fissured, eroding, roughened-granular, -like, covered with thallus at first then white-sorediate. Asci clavate, with well-developed apical tholus, 8-spored (rarely 6-spored). Ascospores uniseriate, oval-ellipsoid, pointed at one end, rounded at other, occasionally apiculate at one end, 43.5-74 × 26.1-38.8 µm. Chemistry: TLC 3 unidentified compounds (brown-purple or greyish).
Thallus in irregular, continuous patches 2-6(-10) cm diam., olive-green to pale grey-green or fawnish, wrinkled-verrucose or shallow papillate, areolate-cracked, shining or matt. Fertile verrucae 0.5-1.5 mm diam., to 1.2 mm tall, sessile, rounded, white-sorediate at first, margins concolorous with thallus, thick, wrinkled-striate or ± exfoliating, white-pulverulent. Apothecia 1 per verruca, disc pale to dark red-brown or greyish with a thick, whitish pruina. Asci 8-spored, clavate, occasionally 4-6-spored with small or aborted spores. Ascospores oval, uniseriate, (18.7-)23-36(-40) × 12-15.5(-20.3) µm, wall 1.5-3 µm thick. Chemistry: 2 unidentified compounds.

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Lepra truncata (Kremp.) A.W.Archer & Elix
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Lepra truncata (Kremp.) A.W.Archer & Elix
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Southland Land District
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Southland Land District
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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7 March 2019
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