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Crocodia poculifera (Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & Elix

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Crocodia poculifera (Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & Elix
Crocodia poculifera (Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & Elix

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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(Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & Elix
Müll.Arg.
D.J.Galloway & Elix
2014
1
ICN
species
Crocodia poculifera

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poculifera

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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.

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Crocodia poculifera (Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & Elix
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Crocodia poculifera (Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & Elix
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Crocodia poculifera (Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & Elix
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Crocodia poculifera (Müll.Arg.) D.J.Galloway & Elix
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District

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10 March 2015
11 March 2019
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