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Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale

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Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale, Phytologia 28: 488 (1974)
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
Political Region
Western Pacific

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(Taylor) Hale
Taylor
Hale
1974
488
ICN
species
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa

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scabrosa

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Thallus foliose, loosely attached, to 6 cm diam. Lobes flat, 2-5 mm wide in older parts, subdichotomously branching at first, with thinner, narrower, secondary lobes towards margins, becoming densely imbricate-laciniate, not ascending at apices, margins entire, black, shining. Upper surface yellow or yellowish-green, smooth, shining, occasionally faintly maculate, wrinkled, cracked centrally, isidia and soredia absent. Lower surface pale reddish-brown, darker centrally, shining, wrinkled or papillate. Rhizines sparse to moderate, simple, rarely squarrosely branched, more common centrally. Apothecia sparse, subpedicellate, 1-4 mm diam., disc smooth, red-brown, concave, imperforate, margins prominent, concolorous with thallus, entire or occasionally crenulate. Pycnidia occasional to common, minute, black, punctiform. Chemistry: Cortex K-; medulla K+ yellow → red, C-, KC+ red, Pd+ orange. Norstictic, salazinic and usnic acids.

Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale

Thallus foliose, closely attached, rosette-forming or spreading and ± loosely attached, to 8 cm diam. Lobes very variable, sublinear-elongate, subdichotomously branched to densely imbricate, complex, margins entire or variously incised, black, shining. Upper surface yellowish-green, smooth, shining, moderately to densely isidiate, maculae and soredia absent. Isidia small, simple to coralloid-branched, terete to ± pustularscurfy at maturity. Lower surface pale brown, pinkish or creamish-white, smooth to subcorrugate. Rhizines sparse, simple, pale brown. Apothecia very rare, pedicellate, disc to 5 mm diam., matt, red-brown, concave to ± undulate, margins concolorous with thallus, entire to crenate, ± ragged-incised, isidiate. Pycnidia not seen. Chemistry: Cortex K-; medulla K-, C-, KC+ pink, Pd-. Norlobaridone, norlobariol, loxodin, loxodinol and usnic acid.

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Parmelia scabropustulata Elix
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale
Parmelia scabrosa Taylor
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale

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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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1 January 2000
6 April 2016
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