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Psoromidium Stirt.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Galloway, D.J. (2007)
The one species in this monospecific genus is Australasian

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Stirt.
Stirt.
1877
1876
304
ICN
Psoromidium aleuroides (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
genus
Psoromidium

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Fungi
Ascomycota
Ascomycetes
Lecanorales
Pannariaceae
Psoromidium

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

Psoromidium Stirt.

Thallus squamulose or small-foliose, orbicular to spreading, with a ± prominent, marginal black prothallus of felted, black hyphae. Photobiont green, . Cephalodia small, grey-blue, squamulose to subplacodioid, containing a blue-green alga (?). Apothecia biatorine, with a pale proper margin, soon disappearing. Ascospores 8 per ascus, biseriate, simple, colourless, ellipsoid or elongate-ellipsoid, walls smooth or warted.

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Psoromaria Nyl.
Psoromaria Nyl. ex Hue
Galloway, D.J. (2007)
Psoromidium Stirt.
Psoromidium Stirt.
Psoromidium Stirt.
Galloway, D. J. (1985)
Psoromidium Stirt.
Psoromidium Stirt.
Galloway, D.J. (2007)
Psoromidium Stirt.

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
16 June 2010
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