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Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.

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Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 9: 246 (1866)
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Australasian

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(Sw.) Nyl.
Sw.
Nyl.
1866
246
ICN
species
Sticta filix

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filix

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Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.

Thallus foliose, ± erect or pendulous or spreading, to 5-12(-15) cm tall, firmly attached by a ± root-like holdfast, supporting a short (1-2 cm), thickened, terete or ± canaliculate stalk. Lobes palmate, oftenimbricate, complex, with a distinctly grooved midrib, rather fragile, often ± fenestrate, brittle when dry, margins dissected, sinuses circular, irregularly lobed or notched, appearing phyllidiate. Upper surface bright green to greenish-yellow or olive, smooth or slightly wrinkled, matt, grooved-canaliculate in mid-line of lobes, often dark brown to black at base of lobes and on basal stalk, internal cephalodia visible as raised, hemispherical lumps. Lower surface pale greenish-white, glabrous, shining at margins, yellowish to dark brown or blackening towards centre, midrib conspicuously raised, dark red-brown and often short-tomentose, tomentum rather variable, thick, a ± uniform dark brown or pale white felt, to a short, sparse, pale pubescence on central ribs. Cyphellae ± numerous, small, scattered, pock-like with a poorly defined margin, hardly raised, membrane of pit yellowish-brown. Apothecia sessile, scattered, often crowded towards margins, rarely at centre, 0.5-4 mm diam., disc red-brown, smooth, matt, concave at first, becoming plane to subconvex with age, margins thick, striate-crenulate, inflexed at first, pale brown or pinkish, occluded with age. Ascospores fusiform, colourless, 1-3-septate, 30-38(-45) × 9-11 µm.

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Lichen filix Sw.
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
Lobaria filix (Sw.) Räuschel
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
Lobaria laevigata (Kremp.) Hellb.
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
Platisma filix (Sw.) Hoffm.
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
Sticta filicina Ach.
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
Sticta filix var. laevigata (Kremp.) Stizenb.
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
Sticta laevigata Kremp.
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
Stictina filicina (Ach.) Nyl.
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.

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Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Sticta filix (Sw.) Nyl.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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4146863a-586b-4ff9-9590-39ec946ad4ad
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 September 2010
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