Crocodia poculifera (Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & Elix
Details
Crocodia poculifera (Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & Elix
Crocodia poculifera (Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & Elix
Nomenclature
(Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & Elix
Müll.Arg.
D.J.Galloway & Elix
2014
1
ICN
species
Crocodia poculifera
Classification
Synonyms
Descriptions
Thallus orbicular to spreading, often free at margins, 5-10(-12) cm diam. Lobes laciniate-elongate, imbricate, margins wavy, crisped, minutely notched or incised, ± isidiate. Upper surface bright lettuce-green, tinged brownish at apices when wet, pale greenish-grey when dry, undulate, smooth, matt, minutely white-pubescent towards lobe apices, often faintly scabrid in patches. Medulla yellow. Photobiont green. Lower surface whitish to pale yellowish, suffused pinkish in parts, very finely tomentose to margins, tomentum sparse, short, white, soft. Pseudocyphellae scattered, yellow, effigurate to rounded, to 1.5 mm wide, flat. Apothecia 2-8mm diam., marginal or submarginal, distinctly pedicellate, disc dark red-brown, deeply concave, margins coarsely golden-sorediate, ± enclosed by verrucose-areolate, white tomentose, concolorous thalline exciple. Ascopores brown, fusiform, 1-3-septate, 18-21 × 6-7 µm. Chemistry: Pulvinic acid, pulvinic lactone, calycin, and unidentified triterpenes or sterols.
Taxonomic concepts
Crocodia poculifera (Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & Elix 2013
Pseudocyphellaria poculifera (Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Pseudocyphellaria poculifera (Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Sticta poculifera Müll.Arg.
Sticta poculifera Müll.Arg.
Global name resources
Collections
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Metadata
5fb0a025-dd7a-44e8-9b9f-cea1ca3e9c76
scientific name
Names_Plants
10 March 2015
11 March 2019