Stereocaulon caespitosum Redinger
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Stereocaulon caespitosum Redinger (1936)
Stereocaulon caespitosum Redinger
Biostatus
Nomenclature
Redinger
Redinger
1936
132
ICN
Stereocaulon caespitosum Redinger
species
Stereocaulon caespitosum
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Stereocaulon caespitosum Redinger
Thallus dwarf, to 8 mm tall. Pseudopodetia simple, erect, finger-like, occasionally bifurcating at apices, nodular-papillate at first, becoming terete, corticate, cortex continuous, sometimes horizontally cracked, smooth or wrinkled, often shining, greyish-white below, becoming purplish-brown above and mottled, with small, black pycnidia at apices. Phyllocladia absent. Cephalodia basal, cerebriform and slightly convoluted, greenish-black, surface rather scabrid. Apothecia terminal, disc black 1-5 mm wide, deeply concave at first becoming persistently plane at maturity with a prominent, raised, pale, red-brown margin, thalline exciple smooth or wrinkled, red-brown. Hypothecium 60-75 µm thick, red-brown. Ascospores broadly fusiform, 6-8-septate, 30-50 × 4-7 µm Chemistry: Atranorin, protocetraric and fumarprotocetraric acids.
Taxonomic concepts
Gymnocaulon caespitosum (Redinger) P.A.Duvign.
Stereocaulon caespitosum Redinger
Stereocaulon caespitosum Redinger
Stereocaulon caespitosum Redinger
Stereocaulon caespitosum Redinger
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3d1b7e6d-5b73-4dba-ae16-799a5d541e82
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1 January 2000
14 September 2010