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Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James

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Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James, Lichenologist 12: 297 (1980)
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
Political Region
Palaeotropical

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(Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Nyl.
D.J.Galloway & P.James
1980
297
ICN
species
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis

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dissimilis

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Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James

Thallus linear-laciniate, suborbicular to spreading, 5-10(-20) cm wide, loosely to closely attached. Lobes linear-elongate to shallowly rounded to ± dichotomously branching, thin and rather brittle, imbricate centrally, apices discrete, margins entire at apices or ± bifurcate, highly dissected in older parts, isidiate, often ± subcanaliculate, margins ± thickened. Upper surface dark leaden grey to bluish-black when wet, pale lilac-brown to grey-brown when dry, smooth, shining, not tomentose, without soredia, maculae or pseudocyphellae. Isidia mainly marginal, occasionally laminal, flattened, or terete, not tomentose, concolorous with thallus. Medulla white. Photobiont blue-green. Lower surface pale buff or white at margins, darker brown to ochre centrally, glabrous, slightly wrinkled at margins, tomentose centrally, glabrous in a narrow marginal zone, elsewhere tomentose, tomentum to margins in older lobes, short, regular, whitish, silky. Pseudocyphellae white, minute, fleck-like, 0.1-0.6 mm wide, rarely to 1 mm wide, rather sparse, flat, sunk in tomentum. Apothecia submarginal to scattered, 1.5-3.0 mm diam., disc red-brown, margins pale whitish, irregularly dentate-lacerate or crenulate, thalline exciple pale, corrugate-verrucose. Ascospores brown, oblong-fusiform, 1-3-septate, 24-42 × 8-11 µm. Chemistry: 7β-acetoxy-hopan-22-ol, hopane-15α,22-diol, ± gyrophoric acid.

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Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Sticta intricata var. fimbriata Zahlbr.
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Stictina fragillima var. dissimilis Nyl.
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James

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Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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1 January 2000
10 June 2010
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