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Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner

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Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner, Beih. Nova Hedwigia. 79: 302 (1984)
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Cosmopolitan

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(Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Nyl.
Hafellner
1984
302
ICN
species
Megalaria grossa

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grossa

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Thallus olive greenish with a yellowish greyish tinge, continuous, or minutely cracked, in places noticeably areolate to diffract, smooth to minutely roughened-granular, matt or shining, not delimited at margins by a black prothallus, in irregular patches or bands, 0.5-5 cm diam., corticolous (bark or twigs). Apothecia prominent, scattered, solitary to 1-3-confluent, sessile, rounded to ± irregular through mutual pressure, 0.5-3.0 mm diam., concave at first becoming plane or convex, disc black or dark olivaceous brown-black, matt, epruinose, margins prominent, ± persistent, black, slightly raised, entire to flexuose, proper exciple below fruit, thick, carbonised. Epithecium 20-25 µm thick, olive green or bluish. Hymenium 250-360 µm thick, colourless. Hypothecium 200-250 µm thick, black or brown-black. Paraphyses simple, 2 µm thick, conglutinate, not, or only slightly thickened at apices. Ascospores broadly ellipsoid or oval, apices pointed at one end or both ends rounded, slightly constricted at septum, locules ± equal, 10-13(-18) × (17-)20-33(-38) µm.
Thallus olive greenish or greenish-yellow to creamish-buff, ± areolate, wrinkled, verrucose or lacking. Apothecia sessile, scattered, few to many, 0.5-2.0 mm diam., disc black, smooth, concave at first, becoming roughened, convex and immarginate with age, margins persistent, thick, concolorous with disc, thinner and sometimes occluded at maturity. Epithecium blue-black, 8-22 µm thick. Hymenium colourless 80-110 µm tall. Paraphyses discrete 2-2.5 µm thick, apices blue-black, capitate. Hypothecium blue-black or green-black, dense, thick. Ascospores 20-34 × 10-15(-18) µm, straight, apices pointed or rounded.

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Biatorina corroborans (Stirt.) Hellb.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Biatorina melaclina` (Nyl.) Hellb.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Biatorina melaclina f. melastegia (Nyl.) Hellb.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Catillaria corroborans (Stirt.) Zahlbr.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Catillaria intermixta var. pallescens Zahlbr.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Catillaria melaclina f. areniseda Zahlbr.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Catillaria melastegia (Nyl.) Zahlbr.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Catillaria weinmanniae Zahlbr.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Catinaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Vain.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Lecidea grossa Pers. ex Nyl.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Lecidea melaclina Nyl.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Lecidea melastegia Nyl.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Patellaria (corroborans) (Stirt.) Müll.Arg.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
Patellaria melaclina (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner

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New Zealand
Otago Land District
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Megalaria grossa (Pers. ex Nyl.) Hafellner
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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551bbe43-a873-4d0d-ad1b-c6e03325133b
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
19 October 2010
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