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Physma byrsaeum (Ach.) Tuck.

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Physma byrsaeum (Ach.) Tuck. (1882)
Physma byrsaeum (Ach.) Tuck.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Palaeotropical

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(Ach.) Tuck.
Ach.
Tuck.
1882
115
ICN
species
Physma byrsaeum

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byrsaeum

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Physma byrsaeum (Ach.) Tuck.

Thallus foliose, lobate ± rosette-shaped, to 10 cm diam., corticolous. Lobes radiating, 25 mm long and 2-12 mm wide, margins thickened, rounded, sinuses circular often deeply incised. Upper surface brownish or olive-green to greyish or glaucous blue to blackish, darker centrally, strongly wrinkled, faveolate, plicate-ridged, minutely maculate (X 10 lens) or minutely wrinkled-faveolate, sometimes smooth and shining in parts. Lower surface woolly, black, densely rhizinate to margins. Rhizines very short, squarrosely branched, black or pale. Apothecia common, sessile, laminal or occasionally marginal, to 2.5 mm diam., disc plane, red-brown, shining, waxy, imperforate, without tomentum, margins thick, to 0.5 mm wide, minutely wrinkled, leathery. Ascospores 8 per ascus, colourless, ellipsoidal, 13-14 × 8-9 µm, with a thick epispore.

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Parmelia byrsaea Ach.
Physma byrsaeum (Ach.) Tuck.
Physma byrsaeum (Ach.) Tuck.
Physma byrsaeum (Ach.) Tuck.
Physma byrsaeum (Ach.) Tuck.
Physma byrsaeum (Ach.) Tuck.
Physma byrsaeum (Ach.) Tuck.

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Physma byrsaeum (Ach.) Tuck.
Fiji
Physma byrsaeum (Ach.) Tuck.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Physma byrsaeum (Ach.) Tuck.
Solomon Islands

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656b2f90-7a00-4601-9031-c1cc658be743
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
26 August 2024
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