Diploicia canescens (Dicks.) A.Massal.

Details

Name scientific

Diploicia canescens (Dicks.) A.Massal., Ric. Auton. Lich. Crost. (Verona) 86 (1852)

Preferred name

Diploicia canescens (Dicks.) A.Massal.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

A.Massal.

Original authors

Dicks.

Authors

(Dicks.) A.Massal.

Publication place

Massalongo, A.B. 1852: Ricerche sull'autonomia dei licheni crustosi. Dalla tipografia di A. Frizierio, Verona.

Year published

1852

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lichen canescens Dicks.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Diploicia canescens

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Physciaceae

Genus

Diploicia

Species

canescens

Subordinates

Synonyms

Descriptions

Galloway, D. J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Government Printer, Wellington.

Diploicia canescens (Dicks.) A.Massal.

Description

Thallus squamulose-subcrustose, rosette-forming to spreading 1-3(-5) cm diam., margins distinctly radiate-plicate, entire, ± thickened, convex, grey-white or white, darker centrally. Lobes convex 1-4 mm wide, wider at margins, distinctly pruinose and sorediate. Soralia in scattered, erose patches, mainly laminal, soredia white, coarsely granular to farinose. Apothecia not seen in New Zealand material. Chemistry: Cortex K+ yellow. Atranorin, chloroatranorin, diploicin.