Bacidia superula (Nyl.) Hellb.

Details

Name scientific

Bacidia superula (Nyl.) Hellb. (1896)

Preferred name

Bacidia superula (Nyl.) Hellb.

Taxonomy reference

Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 1. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Linked name

Bacidia superula (Nyl.) Hellb. 1896

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

Palaeotropical.

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Hellb.

Original authors

Nyl.

Authors

(Nyl.) Hellb.

Year published

1896

Publication page

100

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lecidea superula Nyl.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Bacidia superula

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Bacidiaceae

Genus

Bacidia

Species

superula

Synonyms

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Plagianthus betulinus A.Cunn.

CHR (1 records from New Zealand.)

Descriptions

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

Bacidia superula (Nyl.) Hellb.

Description

Thallus dull olive-green or brownish, minutely granular-papillate, areolate-cracked, effuse or ± absent. Apothecia pale yellow-orange, translucent when wet, round to irregular, solitary or 1-3-confluent and deformed by mutual pressure, plane to convex, 0.2-0.4 mm diam., margins thin or lacking, concolorous with disc or darker. Hymenium colourless, 15-25 µm thick. Ascospores bacillar, straight or slightly curved, 3-6(-8)-septate, 24-34(-39) × 1.7-2.5(-3.4) µm.