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Ramalina celastri (Spreng.) A.Massal.

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Ramalina celastri (Spreng.) A.Massal., Mem. Reale Ist. Veneto Sci. 10: 36 (1861)
Ramalina celastri (Spreng.) A.Massal.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Galloway (2007) accepted Ramalina celastri (Spreng.) Krog & Swinscow (1976) for New Zealand.

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(Spreng.) A.Massal.
Spreng.
A.Massal.
1861
36
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species
Ramalina celastri

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celastri

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Thallus erect, rigid, (1-)5-10(-12) cm tall, sparingly to moderately branched from an open broad base, holdfast prominent. Branches flattened, ± lanceolate, plane or canaliculate, width variable, 1-20 mm wide, commonly 3-10 mm wide, smooth or uneven, undulate, plicate or ridged, pale greenish- grey to pale stramineous or fawn-grey, young branches thin, ± smooth and even, older branches longitudinally ribbed-striate or reticulately ridged from subcorticular strands of cartilaginous strengthening tissue, often lacerate-cracked or fenestrate, pseudocy-phellae common and often prominent, white, shortly linear to irregular, cortex sometimes eroding to reveal ± clathrate arrangement of subcortical cartilaginous strands, margins sinuous, entire, slightly thickened, apices narrow, entire to broad and ± ragged, in well-developed thalli small lobules or adventitious thalli growing from lamina, soralia absent. Apothecia numerous, marginal in young thalli, then laminal in older thalli, pedicellate, 0.2-0.5 mm diam., deeply cupuliform when young with a thin margin, becoming plane when convex and ± immarginate with age, disc flat or convex, sometimes papillate, white- or pinkish-pruinose, thalline exciple smooth at first, becoming coarsely wrinkled scabrid, glossy. Ascospores straight, apices rounded or acute, 10-16 × 4-7 µm. Chemistry: No medullary substances.

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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Southland Land District
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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27 August 2024
27 August 2024
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