Pertusaria circumcincta Stirt.

Details

Name scientific

Pertusaria circumcincta Stirt., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 464 (1875)

Preferred name

Pertusaria circumcincta Stirt.

Taxonomy reference

Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 2. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Linked name

Pertusaria circumcincta Stirt.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

Endemic

Nomenclature

Original authors

Stirt.

Authors

Stirt.

Publication place

Stirton, J. 1875: Additions to the lichen flora of New Zealand. Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany 14: 458–474.

Year published

1875

Publication page

464

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pertusaria circumcincta Stirt.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Pertusaria circumcincta

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Pertusariales

Family

Pertusariaceae

Genus

Pertusaria

Species

circumcincta

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Pertusaria circumcincta Stirt.

Description

Thallus olive green to grey-green, fawnish in parts, verrucose, nodular-papillate, globose, surface granular, congested, hemispherical or flattened, spreading in a thick, irregular crust, 2-5(-10) cm diam., saxicolous. Apothecia innate to sessile, margins often completely enclosing disc, thick nodular-papillate, 0.5-2.0 mm diam., disc pale to dark red-brown with a thin, white pruina. Asci clavate, 1-spored. Ascospores broad ellipsoid, apices rounded, 100-160(-230) × 40-65(-74) µm, wall 3-4 µm thick. Chemistry: TLC two unidentified compounds.