Pyrenula leucotrypa (Nyl.) Upreti

Details

Name scientific

Pyrenula leucotrypa (Nyl.) Upreti, Nova Hedwigia 66: 570 (1998)

Preferred name

Pyrenula leucotrypa (Nyl.) Upreti

Taxonomy reference

Aptroot, A. 2012: A world key to the species of Anthracothecium and Pyrenula. The Lichenologist 44: 5–53.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Absent

New Zealand

Political Region

Aptroot listed Trypethelium erumpens Stirt. (non. illeg.), which is based on a specimen from Wellington, and its homotypic synonym Melanotheca stirtoniana Müll.Arg. in synonymy with Pyrenula leucotrypa.

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Upreti

Original authors

Nyl.

Authors

(Nyl.) Upreti

Publication place

Upreti, D.K. 1998: A key to the lichen genus Pyrenula from India, with nomenclatural notes. Nova Hedwigia 66: 557–576.

Year published

1998

Publication page

570

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Trypethelium leucotrypum Nyl.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Pyrenula leucotrypa

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Pyrenulales

Family

Pyrenulaceae

Genus

Pyrenula

Species

leucotrypa

Synonyms

Descriptions

Galloway, D. J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Government Printer, Wellington.

Melanotheca stirtoniana Müll.Arg.

Description

Thallus thin, continuous or cracked, in minute parallel lines, glaucous or pale yellowish-brown, shining, ± varnish-like. Pseudothecia in stromata, hemispherical to irregularly swollen, black, shining to subpruinose, 0.5-2.5 mm diam. Ascospores ellipsoid 3-septate, 24 × 12 µm.