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Placynthium nigrum (Huds.) Gray

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Placynthium nigrum (Huds.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 1, 395 (1821)
Placynthium nigrum (Huds.) Gray

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Cosmopolitan

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(Huds.) Gray
Huds.
Gray
1821
395
ICN
species
Placynthium nigrum

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nigrum

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Placynthium nigrum (Huds.) Gray

Thallus in rosettes, olive to blackish, to 3 cm diam., not effigurate, surrounded by a black, marginal prothallus. Lobes squamulose, flat, 0.4-1.5 mm wide, margins crenate or digitate, squamules scattered at thallus margin, crowded centrally, forming a continuous crust which may become areolate, areolae 1-4 mm wide and 1-3 mm tall. Isidia present or absent, cylindrical, 0.2-0.5 × 0.05-0.1 mm. Lower surface blue-green, rhizinate. Apothecia 1 mm diam., with dark proper margin, disc brown or black, concave at first becoming plane or convex. Ascospores narrow-ellipsoid, 1- to 3-septate, 7-18 × 3.5-7 µm.

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Lichen niger Huds.
Placynthium nigrum (Huds.) Gray
Placynthium nigrum (Huds.) Gray
Placynthium nigrum (Huds.) Gray
Placynthium nigrum (Huds.) Gray
Placynthium nigrum (Huds.) Gray
Placynthium nigrum (Huds.) Gray

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Placynthium nigrum (Huds.) Gray
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Placynthium nigrum (Huds.) Gray
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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706e4c95-b0c8-4fa2-b401-50123ec831f2
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
24 May 2010
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