Placopsis gelidioides Du Rietz
Details
Placopsis gelidioides Du Rietz in Lamb, Lilloa 13: 210 (1947)
Placopsis gelidioides Du Rietz
Biostatus
Nomenclature
Du Rietz
Du Rietz
1947
210
ICN
Placopsis gelidioides Du Rietz
species
Placopsis gelidioides
Classification
Descriptions
Placopsis gelidioides Du Rietz
Thallus determinate, effigurate, rosette-forming to irregular, closely attached, to 5 cm diam., prothallus absent, saxicolous. Lobe margins inflated, effigurate, 4-7 mm long, becoming areolate, complex centrally,1-1.5 mm wide and 0.4 mm thick, transversely cracked or separated by narrow cracks, apices rounded or crenulate. Upper surface distinctly bullate-areolate, areolae subspherical or rather convoluted, with intervening cracks, often well-separated, smooth, matt or shining, epruinose, pale brownish-pink or flesh-coloured, soredia and isidia absent. Cephalodia central, rather sparse, sessile, rounded to subirregular, to 5 mm diam., radially wrinkled and folded, reddish-pink, dull, epruinose. Apothecia numerous, sessile, rounded, to 1.5 mm diam., thalline margin entire, thick, disc plane, brownish, dull, epruinose. Hymenium 160-185 µm tall, pale yellowish above. Ascospores ellipsoid 12-19 × 8-10 µm. Pycnidia immersed, in swellings, ostioles prominent, red-brown. Conidia filiform, slightly curved, 16-20 × 0.5 µm. Chemistry: Cortex K-, C-; medulla K-, C-, Pd-.
Taxonomic concepts
Placopsis gelidioides Du Rietz
Placopsis gelidioides Du Rietz ex I.M.Lamb
Placopsis gelidioides Du Rietz
Placopsis gelidioides Du Rietz
Placopsis gelidioides Du Rietz in I.M.Lamb
Placopsis gelidioides Du Rietz
Historic biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Specimens from Chile cited
Collections
Metadata
4845238e-d86c-4f3b-95e6-a42112d0b729
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
25 September 2020