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Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.

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Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg. (1888)
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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(Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
Hook.f. & Taylor
Müll.Arg.
1888
134
ICN
species
Sticta lacera

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lacera

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Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.

Thallus 1-2(-3) cm tall, thin, fragile, easily fragmented when dry, erect or decumbent, spreading, lobate, stalked, attached by small, often proliferating root-like holdfasts, often forming extensive swards on bark or rocks. Lobes narrow, laciniate, ± strap-like 0.3-2 mm wide, highly dissected, margins entire, often minutely lobulate or phyllidiate, dichotomously to irregularly branched. Upper surface bright to pale green, olive to suffused-brownish, stalk darker, ribbed, flattened or ± terete, yellow-brown below, becoming distinctly orange- yellow on storage. Lower surface pale greenish to yellow-brown centrally and basally, white at margins, glossy, glabrous, minutely wrinkled, with a ± raised midrib to lobes. Cyphellae minute, pock-like, scattered, without a raised margin. Apothecia rather rare, sessile, solitary, towards lobe apices, 0.4-1.8 mmdiam., disc plane to subconvex, matt, smooth, pale red-brown with a pale, waxy margin, thalline exciple massive, smooth to slightly verrucose-areolate. Ascospores fusiform, brown, 1-septate, 35-40(-95) × 7-10 µm.

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Cetraria lacera Hook.f. & Taylor
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
Lobaria parvula (Nyl.) Hellb.
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
Sticta filix var. parvula Nyl.
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
Sticta parvula (Nyl.) Nyl.
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.

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Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Sticta lacera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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752660a1-5391-46f8-883c-57211b32c741
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
8 October 2010
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