Fissurina triticea (Nyl.) Staiger

Details

Name scientific

Fissurina triticea (Nyl.) Staiger (2002)

Preferred name

Fissurina triticea (Nyl.) Staiger

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

Fissurina triticea (Nyl.) Staiger

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

Pantropical

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Staiger

Original authors

Nyl.

Authors

(Nyl.) Staiger

Year published

2002

Publication page

156

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Graphis triticea Nyl.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Fissurina triticea

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Ostropales

Family

Graphidaceae

Genus

Fissurina

Species

triticea

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Graphis triticea Nyl.

Description

Thallus crustose, grey-white to dingy yellow, thick and often warted, sometimes with areolae separated by deep fissures. Lirellae pale, immersed, narrow 0.1-0.4 mm long, thalline margin heavy, almost closing over hymenium, proper exciple pale, non-carbonised. Ascospores 8 per ascus, uniseriate, colourless, 4-locular, with thick sometimes halonate walls, 18-25 × 9-15 µm. Chemistry: Stictic acid.