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Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway

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Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway, Lichenologist 15: 308 (1983)
Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway

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New Zealand
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D.J.Galloway
D.J.Galloway
1983
308
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Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway
species
Pseudocyphellaria crassa

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Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway

Thallus spreading, ± loosely attached, margins ± free and subascendent, to 20 cm diam. Lobes linear-elongate, 5-10 mm wide and 3-5 cm long, ± laciniate, subdichotomously to irregularly branching, margins entire or slightly incised, slightly thickened, ± incurled, brown-pubescent, apices crenulate, sinuous or truncate. Upper surface reddish when wet, pale greyish-fawn or tinged yellowish when dry, shallowly reticulate-faveolate, uneven or smooth, shining, without soredia, isidia, maculae or pseudocyphellae. Medulla white. Photobiont blue-green. Lower surface densely and thickly tomentose to the margins, or with a narrow, glabrous, marginal zone, tomentum dense, brown to blackish. Pseudocyphellae yellow, scattered, round to irregular, frequent, verruciform, 0.1-1.0 mm diam., sunk in tomentum or protruding from it, margins conspicuous, pale to dark brown or black. Apothecia marginal or submarginal, 0.5-3.0 mm diam., sessile to subpedicellate, disc concave at first and entirely obscured by margins, plane at maturity, matt, brown-black, margins thick, persistent pale buff or flesh-coloured, coarsely scabrid-crenulate appearing ± denticulate or coronate, thalline exciple corrugate-scabrid, pale flesh-coloured. Ascospores greenish-brown, fusiform-ellipsoid, 1-3-septate, 23-30 × (3-)7-10 µm. Chemistry: Pulvinic acid, pulvinic dilactone, calycin, tenuiorin, methyl gyrophorate, hopane-6α,7β,22-triol, stictic, constictic and norstictic acids.

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Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway
Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway
Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway
Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway
Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway

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Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Pseudocyphellaria crassa D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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6645c56a-95dc-4205-a073-c8e980379a19
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1 January 2000
10 December 2021
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