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Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.

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Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab. in Hooker, Bot. Antarct. Voy. II (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part II, 296 (1855)
Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Australasian

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(Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.
Hook.f. & Taylor
C.Bab.
1855
296
ICN
species
Cladonia capitellata

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capitellata

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Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.

Primary squamules persistent or disappearing, to 3 mm long and 2 mm wide, crenate or subentire, ascending, plane or subconvex, sparse to frequent, upper surface glaucescent or yellowish-glaucescent, lower surface pale or whitish or striped brownish, blackened at base, esorediate. Podetia arising from margins of primary squamules or more often from thallus fragments, 1.5-6 cm tall, 0.5-1.5 mm diam., cylindrical or subcylindrical, commonly, without cups, rarely with cups, cups small, membrane open or closed, margins ± dentate, simple or ± dichotomously branching, rarely squamulose, apices blunt or furcate, rarely spinose or with cups, erect, rarely decumbent, crowded, sometimes fissured towards base. Cortex subcontinuous, areolate, areolae dispersed, often elevated towards base, esorediate, smooth, occasionally squamulose, yellowish or pale yellow or yellow-grey to brownish at apices. Apothecia small to 0.5 mm wide, clustered (4-20) to ± solitary, often on thin, blackened stalks, terminal, plane at first with a thin margin, becoming convex and immarginate, peltate, brown or blackened. Chemistry: Cortex, K-, KC+ yellowish, Pd-, or extreme tips Pd+ yellow. Usnic, thamnolic and barbatic (tr.) acids and an unidentified terpene.

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Cenomyce capitellata Hook.f. & Taylor
Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.
Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.
Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.
Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.
Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.
Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.

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Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Cladonia capitellata (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab.
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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78eed6aa-94e4-4cb7-aa5b-3e2edab455f3
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
2 July 2009
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