Bactrospora metabola (Nyl.) Egea & Torrente

Details

Name scientific

Bactrospora metabola (Nyl.) Egea & Torrente (1995)

Preferred name

Bactrospora metabola (Nyl.) Egea & Torrente

Taxonomy reference

Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 1. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Linked name

Bactrospora metabola (Nyl.) Egea & Torrente 1995

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

Palaeotropical

Nomenclature

Authors

(Nyl.) Egea & Torrente

Original authors

Nyl.

Combination authors

Egea & Torrente

Year published

1995

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Melaspilea metabola Nyl.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Bactrospora metabola

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Arthoniales

Family

Roccellaceae

Genus

Bactrospora

Species

metabola

Synonyms

Descriptions

Galloway, D. J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Government Printer, Wellington.

Melampilidium metabolum (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.

Description

Thallus pale yellowish-grey to glaucous brown, translucent when wet, thin, determinate or lacking, smooth or rimulose, to ± areolate-cracked. Apothecia scattered, 0.3-1.1 mm diam., red-brown to blackish, matt, epruinose, somewhat granular, prominent, plane at first with a smooth, entire, concolorous margin, becoming convex, subglobose, convoluted-wrinkled and immarginate with age. Hypothecium pale brownish to colourless. Ascospores large, 4-6-8 per ascus, oblong, 75-110 × 9-14 µm.