Peltigera Willd.
Details
Peltigera Willd., Fl. Berol. Prodr. 347 (1787)
Peltigera Willd.
Biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Peltigera is a widespread cosmopolitan genus with c. 70 species known worldwide. There are 16 taxa in New Zealand.
Nomenclature
Willd.
Willd.
1787
347
ICN
Peltigera Willd.
genus
Peltigera
Classification
Subordinates
- Peltigera australis
- Peltigera canina
- Peltigera degenii
- Peltigera degenii
- Peltigera didactyla
- Peltigera dilacerata
- Peltigera dolichorhiza
- Peltigera elisabethae
- Peltigera extenuata
- Peltigera horizontalis
- Peltigera hymenina
- Peltigera lepidophora
- Peltigera malacea
- Peltigera membranacea
- Peltigera nana
- Peltigera neckeri
- Peltigera neopolydactyla
- Peltigera nigripunctata
- Peltigera nitens
- Peltigera pellucida
- Peltigera plumbea
- Peltigera polydactylon
- Peltigera praetextata
- Peltigera rufescens
- Peltigera spuria
- Peltigera subhorizontalis
- Peltigera tereziana
- Peltigera ulcerata
Synonyms
Descriptions
Peltigera Willd.
Thallus heteromerous, foliose, lobate, dorsiventral, lobes 0.5-5(-8) cm diam. Upper surface corticate, cortex paraplectenchymatous, smooth or ± wrinkled or plicate, glabrous, matt or shining or ± scabrid or tomentose or pruinose, bluish-, brownish or yellowish-green or reddish-brown, terricolous or muscicolous or corticolous. Medulla white, loosely interwoven. Photobiont blue-green, , or green, . Lower surface decorticate, arachnoid, ± whitish or brownish, ± distinctly veined. Veins flat or raised, rhizinate. Rhizines short or long, pale or dark, simple to fasciculate, often with an anchoring squarrose tuft. Apothecia round or irregular, marginal, horizontal or on vertical, ascending lobules, often with margins reflexed, exciple areolate-tomentose, or ± lacking, disc red-brown to brown-black, epruinose, margins flesh-coloured to pale brownish, often ± verrucose. Epithecium red-brown. Hymenium colourless to pale brownish. Hypothecium colourless to brown. Asci clavate-cylindrical, 8-spored with a well-defined apical ring structure. Ascospores fusiform or acicular, 3-9-septate, colourless or brown.
Taxonomic concepts
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Metadata
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 October 2019