Astrothelium variolosum (Ach.) Müll.Arg.

Details

Name scientific

Astrothelium variolosum (Ach.) Müll.Arg., Flora 68: 255 (1885)

Preferred name

Astrothelium variolosum (Ach.) Müll.Arg.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Synonym, Trypethelium variolosum, wild non-endemic following Galloway (2007)

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Müll.Arg.

Original authors

Ach.

Authors

(Ach.) Müll.Arg.

Publication place

Müller Argoviensis, J. 1885: Lichenologische Beiträge XXI. Flora, oder Allgemeine Botanische Zeitung 68(12): 247–261.

Year published

1885

Publication page

255

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Trypethelium variolosum Ach.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Astrothelium variolosum

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Pyrenulales

Family

Trypetheliaceae

Genus

Astrothelium

Species

variolosum

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Trypethelium phlyctaena Fée

Description

Thallus thin, waxy, yellow-brown, ± tuberculate or undulate, tubercles brownish-ochraceous, in irregular patches, 2-10 cm diam., corticolous. Perithecia immersed, aggregated, embedded in a pseudostroma, 1-5 mm diam., round to irregular in ± irregularly parallel lines, raised or globose-deformed, ostioles appearing as black dots, 0.1-0.15 mm diam., slightly raised, shining, clustered in groups (8-30). Interthecial hyphae loose, clathrate-branched. Ascospores 8 per ascus, oblong, 3-septate, 20 × 7.5 µm.