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Gyalolechia fulgens (Sw.) Søchting, Frödén & Arup

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Gyalolechia fulgens (Sw.) Søchting, Frödén & Arup, Nordic. J. Bot. 31: 70 (2013)
Gyalolechia fulgens (Sw.) Søchting, Frödén & Arup

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Synonym Fulgensia fulgens treated as Wild, non-endemic with a cosmopolitan distribtution by Galloway (2007)

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Søchting, Frödén & Arup
Sw.
(Sw.) Søchting, Frödén & Arup
2013
70
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Gyalolechia fulgens

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Thallus orbicular, placodioid, to 3(-5) cm diam., saxicolous. Lobes contiguous, imbricate or sublobulate sometimes dispersed, longer than broad and mostly over 1 mm wide, margins neat, clearly differentiated, centre of thallus becoming warted-bullate or areolate. Upper surface matt, yellow-orange to whitish, often strongly white-pruinose, pruina coarse, floury, schizidia (small scale-like structures which split off from the upper surface) often present. Apothecia sessile, central, to 1.5 mm wide, disc convex, orange, with a thin thalline margin, excluded with age. Ascospores rather variable in shape, short and tapered to ellipsoid, 9-12 × 2.5-5 µm. Chemistry: Medulla contains fragilin and caloploicin. Apothecia contain parietin.

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Gyalolechia fulgens (Sw.) Søchting, Frödén & Arup
Gyalolechia fulgens (Sw.) Søchting, Frödén & Arup 2013
Gyalolechia fulgens (Sw.) Søchting, Frödén & Arup
Lichen fulgens Sw.
Gyalolechia fulgens (Sw.) Søchting, Frödén & Arup

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Gyalolechia fulgens (Sw.) Søchting, Frödén & Arup
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District

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3832e7e1-2e04-4b9f-a521-635f100835c7
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4 June 2015
4 June 2015
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