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Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway

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Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway, New Zealand J. Bot. 42: 115 (2004)
Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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(Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
Stirt.
D.J.Galloway
2004
115
ICN
species
Megalaria maculosa

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maculosa

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Thallus grey-white or pale greenish-grey, minutely roughened-verrucose, slightly cracked to ± areolate-cracked, corticolous, delimited by a thin, black, wavy prothallus. Apothecia sessile, 0.1-1.5 mm diam., concave to plane, sparse or crowded-confluent, rounded to irregular through mutual pressure, margins prominent, concolorous with disc, flexuose, disc black, matt, epruinose. Epithecium blue-black, 8-10(-30) µm thick, dense. Hymenium 30-50 µm tall, colourless. Hypothecium 55 µm thick, colourless. Paraphyses slender, 1.5-2 µm thick, apices blackened, slightly thickened to 3 µm. Asci 34-45 × 10-14 µm, clavate, upper part pale to medium blue in I, with an I+ blue apical tholus to 5 µm thick. Ascospores uni- or biseriate, broadly oval with rounded or slightly pointed ends, 13-17(-19) × (6.5-)8-9 µm, straight, not constricted at septum.

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Biatorina maculosa (Stirt.) Hellb.
Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
Biatorina maculosa (Stirt.) Hellb.
Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
Catillaria maculosa (Stirt.) Zahlbr.
Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
Lecidea maculosa Stirt.
Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
Patellaria maculosa (Stirt.) Müll.Arg.
Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
Patellaria maculosa (Stirt.) Müll.Arg.
Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway

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Megalaria maculosa (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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3cb3d833-445b-486c-955e-7ba7ce16e6d1
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Names_Plants
31 March 2005
19 October 2010
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