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Placopsis salazina I.M.Lamb

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Placopsis salazina I.M.Lamb, Lilloa 13: 259 (1947)
Placopsis salazina I.M.Lamb

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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I.M.Lamb
I.M.Lamb
1947
259
ICN
Placopsis salazina I.M.Lamb
species
Placopsis salazina

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salazina

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Placopsis salazina I.M.Lamb

Thallus determinate, effigurate, rosette-forming, to 4 cm diam., saxicolous. Marginal lobes well-developed, loosely to closely attached, apices rounded or slightly incised-crenulate, ± confluent or separated by fine cracks towards centre, becoming reticulate-cracked but not areolate. Upper surface ± continuous, smooth or very finely wrinkled, pinkish-white, sometimes pruinose, smooth or sometimes shining, without soredia or isidia. Cephalodia central, sessile, orbicular to irregularly radially folded and wrinkled, to 7 mm diam., red-brown, matt, dull, epruinose. Apothecia numerous, to sparse and irregular or in ± concentric rings, rounded, constricted at base, 1 mm diam., thalline margins prominent, swollen, entire, disc plane, brown-red or blackened, sometimes pruinose. Hymenium 130-160 µm tall, yellowish-brown in upper parts. Hypothecium colourless. Ascospores uniseriate, ellipsoid 16-18 × 8-9 µm. Chemistry: Cortex K+ yellow-red, C-, Pd+ orange; medulla K+ yellow → red, C-, KC+ red, Pd+ orange. Salazinic acid.

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Placopsis salazina I.M.Lamb
Placopsis salazina I.M.Lamb
Placopsis salazina I.M.Lamb
Placopsis salazina I.M.Lamb
Placopsis salazina I.M.Lamb
Placopsis salazina I.M.Lamb
Placopsis salazina I.M.Lamb
Placopsis salazina I.M.Lamb

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Endemic

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1 January 2000
11 October 2013
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