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Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon

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Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon, Lichenologist 13: 110 (1981)
Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Cosmopolitan

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(L.) J.R.Laundon
L.
J.R.Laundon
1981
110
ICN
species
Chrysothrix candelaris

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candelaris

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Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon

Thallus crustose-leprose, diffuse (rarely delimited) forming scattered granules in places but chiefly converging to produce a fairly thin ± continuous non-areolate (rarely fortuitously areolate) crust, bright yellow, often with either a slightly orange or a greenish tinge, or rarely greenish-yellow, surface composed entirely of a mass of pulverulent, minutely convex to spherical granules, 0.01-0.1(-0.2) mm diam., cortex absent, thallus unstratified, uniformly yellow throughout, thalline margin absent, prothallus not apparent. Apothecia rare, minute, to 0.5 mm diam., scattered to ± clustered, superficial, orbicular, rarely angular-distorted, disc plane to subconvex, light orange often yellow-pruinose, margins poorly developed to 0.01 mm thick, entire, bright yellow, concolorous with thallus, often occluded in mature fruits, Paraphyses 1-1.5 µm thick, colourless, septate, rather few between asci, these being erect and branched but richly anastomosing above, not swollen apically. Asci clavate, small, 25-33 × 10-13 µm, two walled, the inner extending to form a nipple which may indicate the ascus is of arrested-bitunicate type. Ascospores narrowly obovoid to narrowly ellipsoid, straight or curved, mostly 3-septate (9-)13-14 × 3 µm. Chemistry: Thallus C-, K and KC- or + orange often darkening to red and finally black, Pd-, or + orange. Three chemodemes are present in the species. (i): Calycin, (ii): Pinastric acid. (iii): Calycin and pinastric acid.

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Byssus candelaris L.
Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon
Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon
Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon
Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon
Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon
Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon

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Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
20 August 2021
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