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Peltularia R.Sant.

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Peltularia R.Sant. (1944)
Peltularia R.Sant.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Small genus of four species. One species is known from alpine rocks on the subantartic Campbell and Macquarie Is where it appears to be genuinely rare.

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R.Sant.
R.Sant.
1944
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Peltularia

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Peltularia

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Peltularia R.Sant.

Thallus foliose, heteromerous, dorsiventral, attached to substrate by a ± central umbilicus or by several disc-like holdfasts, saxicolous. Lobes undulate to ± folded, monophyllous or ± polyphyllous, margins entire, incised or ± crenulate, with or without soralia. Upper surface ± areolate or scabrid, rarely smooth with or without soralia. Photobiont blue-green, or . Medulla white. Lower surface pale, whitish to yellowish-brown, thinly tomentose or ± glabrous, smooth to ± faveolate-lacunose. Apothecia hemiangiocarpic, ± immersed to subsessile or urceolate, rounded, thalline margin present or absent, concolorous with thallus. Hymenium 65-100(-120) µm tall, I+ blue, colourless, with a pale brown or brown epithecium. Paraphyses simple, septate, 2 µm thick, apices slightly capitate, with brown pigment external to cells. Asci broadly clavate, with external amyloid cap, 8-spored. Ascospores colourless, thin-walled, ellipsoid to ± spherical, simple to 2(-3)-septate. Pycnidia not seen.

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Peltularia R.Sant.
Peltularia R.Sant.

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51025573-efcf-4054-920d-b91d3d882ad4
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
10 May 2010
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