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Leptogium menziesii (Ach.) Mont.

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Leptogium menziesii (Ach.) Mont. (1852)
Leptogium menziesii (Ach.) Mont.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Austral

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(Ach.) Mont.
Ach.
Mont.
1852
313
ICN
species
Leptogium menziesii

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menziesii

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Leptogium menziesii (Ach.) Mont.

Thallus broadly lobate, orbicular to spreading, to 8 cm diam., greenish-blue or browned, muscicolous or terricolous, rarely saxicolous. Lobes broadly orbicular, papery and rather crisp, margins entire, wavy, often lobulate, upper surface smooth, not wrinkled, matt or shining, without isidia. Lower surface densely white-tomentose, hairs 100 µm long, cells cylindrical. Apothecia occasional to common, sessile, laminal, disc plane to subconvex, pale brown to red-brown, thalline exciple entire, thick, concolorous with thallus, wrinkled, hairy at base. Ascospores ellipsoid-fusiform, pointed or rounded at apices, 22-27 × 8-10 µm, 3-septate to submuriform.

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Leptogium menziesii (Ach.) Mont.
Leptogium menziesii (Ach.) Mont.
Leptogium menziesii (Ach.) Mont.
Leptogium menziesii (Ach.) Mont.
Leptogium menziesii (Ach.) Mont.
Parmelia menziesii Ach.
Leptogium menziesii (Ach.) Mont.

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Leptogium menziesii (Ach.) Mont.
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555d20dd-cab9-4529-9368-04238ff286b4
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
18 March 2009
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