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Lecanora farinacea Fée

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Palaeotropical

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Fée
Fée
1824
117
ICN
Lecanora farinacea Fée
species
Lecanora farinacea

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farinacea

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Thallus roughened-granular, greyish-white, areolate-cracked, areolae minute, convex, subangular to subirregular, in patches 2-5(-10) cm diam.Apothecia sessile, crowded to scattered, round to irregular-deformed through mutual pressure, 0.2-2.5 mm diam., ± plane or undulate, disc brownish or brown-red, densely or finely grey-pruinose, margins persistent, entire, flexuose, or sinuous-undulate, concolorous with thallus, paler or ± pinkish. Epithecium granular, grey-brown or yellowish-brown 10-13 µm thick. Hymenium colourless 110-150 µm tall, pale yellowish. Asci clavate. Ascospores 2-3 seriate, broadly ellipsoid, apices rounded, straight, 13-15 × 6.8-9 µm. Chemistry: Atranorin, salazinic (K+ yellow → red) and norstictic (tr.) acids.
Thallus conspicuous, creamish-buff or dingy white or pinkish, or rusty brown-whitish, matt, slightly roughened, continuous, smooth, finely areolate-cracked, in parts ± eroded, areolae angular, plane 1-2 mm diam., in spreading patches, 2-6(-10) cm diam. Apothecia innate to sessile, solitary to 1-5(-10) crowded together, 0.1-1.5 mm diam., subconcave to plane to subconvex, rounded to angular-irregular through mutual pressure, undulate to ± irregular, disc pale to dark red-brown, epruinose or with a faint, white pruina in parts, margins entire to crenulate, concolorous with thallus. Epithecium granular, brownish, 5-7 µm thick. Hymenium colourless or pale straw-coloured, 50-60 µm tall. Paraphyses simple, dense, 1.5 µm thick, apices not capitate. Ascospores oval to ellipsoid 10-14 × 6-9 µm. Chemistry: Cortex K+ yellow (r) red, KC+ red, Pd+ orange. Norstictic and salazinic (tr.) acids, atranorin and chloratranorin.

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Lecanora albidorufa Zahlbr.
Lecanora farinacea Fée
Lecanora blanda Nyl.
Lecanora farinacea Fée
Lecanora blanda f. crustosa Zahlbr.
Lecanora farinacea Fée
Lecanora dasycarpa Zahlbr.
Lecanora farinacea Fée
Lecanora farinacea Fée
Lecanora farinacea Fée
Lecanora farinacea Fée
Lecanora rubrocincta Stirt.
Lecanora farinacea Fée
Lecanora subglaucodea (Kremp.) Zahlbr.
Lecanora farinacea Fée
Lecidea subglaucodea Kremp.
Lecanora farinacea Fée

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New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Lecanora farinacea Fée
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Lecanora farinacea Fée
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Lecanora farinacea Fée
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Lecanora farinacea Fée
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Lecanora farinacea Fée
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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467dd0fb-7f02-49ab-8fb9-3329798aa623
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
26 January 2010
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