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Megalospora pauciseptata (Shirley) Kantvilas & Lumbsch,

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Megalospora pauciseptata (Shirley) Kantvilas & Lumbsch,, Austral. Syst. Bot. 25: 215 (2012)
Megalospora pauciseptata (Shirley) Kantvilas & Lumbsch,

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Synonym, Austroblastenia pauciseptata, treated as wild, non-endemic by Galloway (2007)

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(Shirley) Kantvilas & Lumbsch,
Shirley
Kantvilas & Lumbsch
2012
215
ICN
species
Megalospora pauciseptata

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pauciseptata

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Thallus pale grey to whitish-grey, usually rather thick and cracked, wrinkled to verrucose, verrucae 0.4-0.8 mm diam., often bursting and developing superficial or capitate soralia. Soredia 20-40 µm diam. Isidia absent. Apothecia scattered, 0.7-3.5 mm diam., disc plane, becoming convex with age, brown or dark-brown, epruinose, glossy, margins ± prominent in young fruits, rather thin, slightly darker than disc or paler than disc, entire, becoming flexuose in older fruits. Epithecium orange-brown, diffuse, 15-20 µm thick. Hymenium 120-160 µm tall, I+ reddish. Ascospores (4-)8 per ascus, 3-septate, straight or curved, 35-40 × 16-19 µm. Chemistry: KC-, Pd+ orange. Pannarin and zeorin.

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Austroblastenia pauciseptata (Shirley) Sipman
Megalospora pauciseptata (Shirley) Kantvilas & Lumbsch,
Heterothecium pauciseptatum Shirley
Megalospora pauciseptata (Shirley) Kantvilas & Lumbsch,
Lopadium pauciseptatum (Shirley) Zahlbr.
Megalospora pauciseptata (Shirley) Kantvilas & Lumbsch,
Megalospora pauciseptata (Shirley) Kantvilas & Lumbsch,
Megalospora pauciseptata (Shirley) Kantvilas & Lumbsch,
Megalospora pauciseptata (Shirley) Kantvilas & Lumbsch,

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New Zealand
Westland Land District

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Names_Plants
28 May 2019
28 May 2019
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