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Usnea Dill. ex Adans.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Dill. ex Adans.
Adans.
1763
7
ICN
genus
Usnea

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Usnea

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Thallus fruticose, tufted, erect or ± pendulous and straggling, to 15 cm long, saxicolous, attached by a basal holdfast. Branches terete, radial in structure, consisting of a central chondroid axis, medulla and cortex, ± branched, with or without lateral fibrils. Surface yellow or greenish-yellow, ± variegated with black or purplish-black. Medulla lax and arachnoid or compact, K+ or -. Chondroid axis 073 to 064 diam. of branch in thickness, hard, opaque or corneous, cylindrical or slightly irregular. Isidia absent. Soredia present or absent, when present in rounded or irregular soralia, concave-eroded to convex-pulvinate, pulverulent to compacted or granular, yellow to blackish. Apothecia when present geniculate, lateral on branches, lecanorine, with or without ray-like branchlets, thalline exciple smooth or warted or wrinkled, concolorous with thallus, disc black or bluish-black, matt or slightly shining, never pruinose. Ascospores 8 per ascus, simple, ellipsoid to subglobose, colourless, 3-5 × 5-8(-10) µm.

Usnea Dill. ex Adans.

Thallus fruticose, erect to pendulous or decumbent, radial, ± filamentous, simple to complexly branched, branches often attached to substrate by a holdfast, primary branches stout, tapering towards apices of secondary branches, ± terete or angled or partly flattened, smooth, or faveolate, waxy or shining, with or without spinules, pseudoisidia, papillae, fibrils, or soredia, yellowish, straw-coloured to pale greenish-blackened near holdfast in some species with or without red pigmentation. Medulla variable in thickness with a central chondroid axis of longitudinal hyphae, usually solid, tough, cartilaginous. Photobiont green, . Apothecia lecanorine, lateral or subterminal, disc rounded, plane or subconcave, surrounded by a thalline margin and furnished with ray-like branchlets, smooth, or minutely warted, often pruinose, exciple smooth and waxy to wrinkled-verrucose or papillate. Ascospores 8 per ascus, simple, colourless, ellipsoid.

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Eumitria Stirt.
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
Neuropogon Nees & Flot.
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
Neuropogon Nees & Flot.
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
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New Zealand
Otago Land District
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
[Not available]
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
Fiji
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
New Zealand
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Usnea Dill. ex Adans.
Solomon Islands

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6a084a8d-9c50-48ab-aefc-a5240835e122
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
17 December 2010
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