Leproplaca chrysodeta (Vain.) J.R.Laundon & Ahti

Details

Name scientific

Leproplaca chrysodeta (Vain.) J.R.Laundon & Ahti, Graph. Scr. 27: 39 (2015)

Preferred name

Leproplaca chrysodeta (Vain.) J.R.Laundon & Ahti

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Synonym, Caloplaca chrysodeta, regarded as wiln, non-endemic by Galloway 2007

Nomenclature

Authors

(Vain.) J.R.Laundon & Ahti

Original authors

Vain.

Combination authors

J.R.Laundon & Ahti

Publication place

Ahti, T; Kondratyuk, S.Y; Kärnefelt, I; Thell, A. 2015: Nomenclatural corrections and notes on some taxa in the Teloschistaceae (lichenized ascomycetes). Graphis Scripta 27(1–2): 37–42.

Year published

2015

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Placodium chrysodetum Vain. ex Räsänen

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Leproplaca chrysodeta

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Teloschistales

Family

Teloschistaceae

Genus

Leproplaca

Species

chrysodeta

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Leproplaca chrysodeta (Vain. ex Räsänen) J.R.Laundon

Description

Thallus irregularly delimited, forming scattered granules at first which later form irregularly scattered patches, at length converging, forming a thick, often areolate crust, brownish yellow or greyish-yellow, margins indefinite, without lobes. Surface composed entirely of a mass of pulverulent spherical granules, 0.1 mm diam., cortex absent. Chemistry: K+ violet-red, C-. Parietin.