Peltularia R.Sant.
Details
Biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
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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Classification
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Descriptions
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.
Taxonomic concepts
Metadata
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
10 May 2010