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Astrothelium variolosum (Ach.) Müll.Arg.

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

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Synonym, Trypethelium variolosum, wild non-endemic following Galloway (2007)

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(Ach.) Müll.Arg.
Ach.
Müll.Arg.
1885
255
ICN
species
Astrothelium variolosum

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variolosum

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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.

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28 May 2019
28 May 2019
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