Lepra erubescens (Hook.f. & Taylor) A.W.Archer & Elix

Details

Name scientific

Lepra erubescens (Hook.f. & Taylor) A.W.Archer & Elix, Australas. Lichenol. 82: 131 (2018)

Preferred name

Lepra erubescens (Hook.f. & Taylor) A.W.Archer & Elix

Taxonomy reference

Archer, A.W.; Elix, J.A. 2018: New combinations of Australian species in the genus Lepra Scop. Australasian Lichenology 82: 130–136.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Archer, A.W.; Elix, J.A. (2018)

Nomenclature

Authors

(Hook.f. & Taylor) A.W.Archer & Elix

Original authors

Hook.f. & Taylor

Combination authors

A.W.Archer & Elix

Publication place

Archer, A.W.; Elix, J.A. 2018: New combinations of Australian species in the genus Lepra Scop. Australasian Lichenology 82: 130–136.

Year published

2018

Publication page

131

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Urceolaria erubescens Taylor

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Lepra erubescens

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Pertusariales

Family

Pertusariaceae

Genus

Lepra

Species

erubescens

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Pertusaria perfida Nyl.

Description

Thallus dingy olive-grey or brownish, verrucose, areolate, areolae angular 0.2-0.5 mm diam., separated by deep cracks, surface granular-roughened, spreading in irregular patches, 1-3 cm diam. Fertile verrucae angular-areolate, 0.3-0.8 mm diam. Apothecia lecanorine, 1-3 per verruca, 0.05-0.85(-1.0) mm diam., disc black, epruinose to grey-white pruinose, margins white or grey-white, roughened, eroding-pulverulent. Asci 8-spored. Ascospores uniseriate, oval-ellipsoid, thin-walled, 34-43.3 × 10.2-23.8 µm. Chemistry: K+ yellow → red, C- KC+ red, Pd+ orange. Norstictic and connorstictic acids.