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Australidea canorufescens (Kremp.) Kantvilas, Wedin & M. Svenss.

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Australidea canorufescens (Kremp.) Kantvilas, Wedin & M. Svenss., Lichenologist 53: 401 (2021)
Australidea canorufescens (Kremp.) Kantvilas, Wedin & M. Svenss.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Kantvilas, Wedin & M. Svenss.
Kremp.
(Kremp.) Kantvilas, Wedin & M. Svenss.
2021
401
ICN
species
Australidea canorufescens

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canorufescens

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Thallus olive green or glaucous, scurfy-areolate or minutely granular-arachnoid, effuse, 1-3 cm diam., corticolous. Apothecia 0.1-1.0 mm diam., scattered to numerous, solitary or 2-confluent, disc plane to subconvex, waxy, orange or red-brown, translucent when wet, margins thin, entire, pale flesh-coloured, disappearing in older fruits. Hymenium colourless, 45-55 µm tall. Paraphyses 2 µm thick, apices capitate, pale orange, to 5 µm thick. Ascospores ellipsoid 8.3-12(-16) × 4-5.1(-8) µm.
Thallus pale creamish to whitish, spreading in irregular patches, 2-10 cm diam., very thin, areolate-cracked in a jig-saw pattern, areolae angular, polygonal 0.1-0.5 mm wide, smooth or minutely roughened-scabrid, granular or scaly. Apothecia sessile, frequent, very small to 0.5 mm diam., usually less, plane at first becoming convex, subglobose, translucent when wet, red-brown to dark brown, matt, epruinose, margins very thin, concolorous with disc or darker, not easily seen, excluded in mature fruits. Hymenium pale orange-yellow, 65 µm tall. Ascospores ovoid, 10-14(-17) × 6-7(-8.5) µm.

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Australidea canorufescens (Kremp.) Kantvilas, Wedin & M. Svenss.
Australidea canorufescens (Kremp.) Kantvilas, Wedin & M. Svenss. 2021
Australidea canorufescens (Kremp.) Kantvilas, Wedin & M. Svenss.
Lecidea canorufescens Kremp.
Australidea canorufescens (Kremp.) Kantvilas, Wedin & M. Svenss.
Lecidea dacrydii Müll.Arg.
Australidea canorufescens (Kremp.) Kantvilas, Wedin & M. Svenss.
Lecidea eucheila Zahlbr.
Australidea canorufescens (Kremp.) Kantvilas, Wedin & M. Svenss.
Lecidea intervertens Nyl.
Australidea canorufescens (Kremp.) Kantvilas, Wedin & M. Svenss.

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New Zealand
Otago Land District

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734476b7-5ce4-443e-ab4c-fad8ace00920
scientific name
Names_Plants
13 June 2022
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