Neophyllis melacarpa (F.Wilson) F.Wilson
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Neophyllis melacarpa (F.Wilson) F.Wilson (1891)
Neophyllis melacarpa (F.Wilson) F.Wilson
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Nomenclature
(F.Wilson) F.Wilson
F.Wilson
F.Wilson
1891
372
ICN
species
Neophyllis melacarpa
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Descriptions
Primary thallus squamulose-laciniate, small, convex, sublinear, irregularly lobed-multifid, margins irregularly crenulate. Podetia short 1-3 mm tall, simple or coralloid, terete to laterally compressed, solid, often crowded forming a ± diffract spreading crust. Surface smooth, often shining, occasionally cracked, greenish-brown above, cream or yellowish-brown below. Medulla white. Apothecia sessile on the tips of fertile podetia, often sunk below the surface of clustered sterile podetia, convex, peltate black or brownish-black, shining 0.5-1 mm diam. Ascospores simple, colourless, ovoid-ellipsoid, 5-12 × 4-7 µm. Chemistry: Thallus and medulla K-, C-, KC-, Pd+ red or -. Melacarpic, congrayanic, grayanic and fumarprotocetraric acids [Chester and Elix Aust. J. Chem. 33: 1153-1156 (1980)].
Taxonomic concepts
Gymnoderma melacarpum (F.Wilson) Yoshim.
Gymnoderma melacarpum (F.Wilson) Yoshim.
Neophyllis melacarpa (F.Wilson) F.Wilson
Neophyllis melacarpa (F.Wilson) F.Wilson
Neophyllis melacarpa (F.Wilson) F.Wilson
Phyllis melacarpa F.Wilson
Neophyllis melacarpa (F.Wilson) F.Wilson
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
19 October 2011