Mycoblastus dissimulans (Nyl.) Zahlbr.

Details

Name scientific

Mycoblastus dissimulans (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univers. 4, 3 (1926)

Preferred name

Mycoblastus dissimulans (Nyl.) Zahlbr.

Linked name

Mycoblastus dissimulans (Nyl.) Zahlbr.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Kantvilas, G. (2009)

Mycoblastus hypomelinus (Stir.) Müll.Arg., regarded by Gslloway (2007) as endemic, was tentatively synonymised with Mycoblastus dissimulans by Kantvilas (2009).

Nomenclature

Authors

(Nyl.) Zahlbr.

Original authors

Nyl.

Combination authors

Zahlbr.

Publication place

Zahlbruckner, A. 1926-1927: Catalogus Lichenum Universalis. Vol. 4. Verlag von Gebruder Bomtraeger, Leipzig.

Year published

1926

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Mycoblastus dissimulans

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Mycoblastaceae

Genus

Mycoblastus

Species

dissimulans

Synonyms

Descriptions

Galloway, D. J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Government Printer, Wellington.

Mycoblastus hypomelinus (Stirt.) Müll.Arg.

Description

Thallus greyish or glaucous-grey, minutely areolate-cracked, areolae granular-verrucose, thin, continuous, bounded by a thick black line. Apothecia sessile, 0.1-0.6(-1.0) mm diam., or subpedicellate, disc convex, immarginate, often globose-tubercular, 1-2 cm diam., black or brown-black, matt, epruinose. Epithecium blue-black, hypothecium bluish. Asci 2-spored. Ascospores ellipsoid, thick-walled, 34-46(-50) × 22-28(-35) µm.