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Cladonia merochlorophaea Asahina

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Cladonia merochlorophaea Asahina, J. Jap. Bot. 16: 713 (1940)
Cladonia merochlorophaea Asahina

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Cosmopolitan

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Asahina
Asahina
1940
713
ICN
Cladonia merochlorophaea Asahina
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Cladonia merochlorophaea

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merochlorophaea

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Cladonia merochlorophaea Asahina

Similar to but much less variable. Podetia 15-40 mm tall, rather abruptly flaring, cups 2-6 mm diam. Cortex strongly areolate-corticate to verrucose, granular soredia firmly attached and densely packed in cup interior, dark greenish-brown, exposed medulla at base red-brown. Apothecia compound, brown to black, sessile, stipitate. Chemistry: Cortex K-, KC+ purplish-red in acetone only, Pd+ red or -. Two chemodemes. (i) Merochlorophaeic, 4-O-methylcryptochlorophaeic and fumarprotocetraric acids. (ii) sekikaic, homosekikaic and fumarprotocetraric acids. The two chemodemes have an identical morphology.

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Cladonia merochlorophaea Asahina
Cladonia merochlorophaea Asahina
Cladonia merochlorophaea Asahina
Cladonia merochlorophaea Asahina
Cladonia merochlorophaea Asahina

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Cladonia merochlorophaea Asahina
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cladonia merochlorophaea Asahina
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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1 January 2000
10 December 2021
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