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Chaenotheca chlorella (Ach.) Müll.Arg.

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Chaenotheca chlorella (Ach.) Müll.Arg., Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 16: 360 (1862)
Chaenotheca chlorella (Ach.) Müll.Arg.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Cosmopolitan

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(Ach.) Müll.Arg.
Ach.
Müll.Arg.
1862
360
ICN
species
Chaenotheca chlorella

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chlorella

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Thallus episubstratic, verrucose to minutely granular, greyish-green or green. Photobiont: or . Apothecia short to very long, 0.5-3.0 mm high, 5-39 times as high as width of stalk. Stalk 0.04-0.08 mm diam., shining, black but often with a granular, intensely yellow pruina. Capitulum broadly obovoid to lenticular. Excipulum 0.13-0.28 mm diam., Well-developed and obconical, or rather poorly-developed as a short collar around base of mazaedium, consisting of periclinally arranged, ± branched hyphae. Hypothecium broadly obconical to semiglobose, with convex upper surface. Capitulum with a dense yellow pruina on lower side of excipulum. Asci cylindrical, with well-developed stalk, 12-20 × 1.9-2.7 µm, produced singly and with uniseriate spores. Ascospores spherical to broadly ellipsoid, 3.1-7.7 × 2.5-3.6 µm, ± provided with irregular cracks giving rise to an irregular ornamentation. Chemistry: Thallus without secondary substances, K-, C-, KC-, Pd-. The yellow pruina of the apothecia consists of vulpinic acid.

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Calicium carthusiae Harm.
Chaenotheca chlorella (Ach.) Müll.Arg.
Calicium chlorellum Ach.
Chaenotheca chlorella (Ach.) Müll.Arg.
Chaenotheca carthusiae (Harm.) Lettau
Chaenotheca chlorella (Ach.) Müll.Arg.
Chaenotheca chlorella (Ach.) Müll.Arg.
Chaenotheca chlorella (Ach.) Müll.Arg.
Chaenotheca chlorella (Ach.) Müll.Arg.

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58082bdb-2c8d-4ab0-8f6e-3fb61531d510
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
17 April 2020
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