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Peltigera Willd.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Peltigera is a widespread cosmopolitan genus with c. 70 species known worldwide. There are 16 taxa in New Zealand.

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Willd.
Willd.
1787
347
ICN
Peltigera Willd.
genus
Peltigera

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Peltigera

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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.

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Peltigera Willd.
Peltigera Willd.
Peltigera Willd.
Peltigera Willd.
Peltigera Willd.

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Peltigera Willd.
Fiji
Peltigera Willd.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Peltigera Willd.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Peltigera Willd.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Peltigera Willd.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Peltigera Willd.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Peltigera Willd.
Solomon Islands

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 October 2019
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