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Psoroma asperellum Nyl.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Present
New Zealand
Political Region
Australasian

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Nyl.
Nyl.
1863
24
ICN
Psoroma asperellum Nyl.
species
Psoroma asperellum

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asperellum

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Psoroma asperellum Nyl.

Thallus small, squamulose, epiphytic on mosses in scattered colonies, to 3 cm diam., or on bark to 5 cm diam., squamules ascendent from an occasionally present, fine, black prothallus. Squamules small, delicate 0.3-0.8 mm wide, rounded, incised, minutely lobulate, rather loosely developed, not forming a tight crust, ascendent, pale greenish-grey to bright lettuce-green when wet, pale whitish-grey on storage, surface smooth, matt, not pruinose at margins, dispersed to crowded-imbricate. Cephalodia ± frequent, pale grey-blue, laminal and marginal, flattened, placodioid or minutely lobed, squamulose. Lower surface white, ± corticate, rhizines few or absent. Apothecia sessile, ± frequent, round, disc pale yellow-orange to pale red-brown, conspicuous, 0.5-1.5 mm diam., plane to subconvex, matt, continuous, eperforate, not gyrose-etched or pruinose, margins crenulate to minutely subsquamulose, overlying a thin, entire, pale proper margin. Ascospores ellipsoid-fusiform, 12-25 × 8-10 µm.

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Psoroma asperellum Nyl.
Psoroma asperellum Nyl.
Psoroma asperellum Nyl.
Psoroma asperellum Nyl.
Psoroma asperellum Nyl.

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Psoroma asperellum Nyl.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Psoroma asperellum Nyl.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Psoroma asperellum Nyl.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Psoroma asperellum Nyl.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Psoroma asperellum Nyl.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Psoroma asperellum Nyl.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Psoroma asperellum Nyl.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Psoroma asperellum Nyl.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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6505ba96-dbcc-4490-8980-3c0092b39d4b
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
14 June 2010
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