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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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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Australasian

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(F.Wilson) F.Wilson
F.Wilson
F.Wilson
1891
372
ICN
species
Neophyllis melacarpa

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melacarpa

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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)].

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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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Neophyllis melacarpa (F.Wilson) F.Wilson
Australia
Tasmania
Neophyllis melacarpa (F.Wilson) F.Wilson
Australia
Victoria
Neophyllis melacarpa (F.Wilson) F.Wilson
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Neophyllis melacarpa (F.Wilson) F.Wilson
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Neophyllis melacarpa (F.Wilson) F.Wilson
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Neophyllis melacarpa (F.Wilson) F.Wilson
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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5ce98d59-c6e0-42f3-bfa1-8e12d369e3dc
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
19 October 2011
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