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Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway

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D.J.Galloway
D.J.Galloway
1983
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Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway
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Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca

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ardesiaca

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Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway

Thallus ± orbicular to spreading, 2-6(-9) cm diam., often in small, closely attached rosettes. Lobes rounded to elongate-laciniate, imbricate, to 2 cm wide, margins crenulate-incised, sorediate, often sinuous. Upper surface dark bluish-purple when wet, pale blue-greyish-fawn when dry, conspicuously maculate (×10 lens), smooth, slightly scabrid at lobe apices, undulate, wrinkled-corrugate centrally, matt or shining, sorediate, without isidia or pseudocyphellae. Soredia golden yellow often somewhat reddish, coarse, granular, crowded, mainly marginal in ± continuous, erose to convolute-congested soralia, occasionally laminal on weakly defined ridges. Medulla yellow. Photobiont blue-green. Lower surface pale yellow, tomentose to margins, tomentum short, even, pale yellowish-white, brownish centrally. Pseudocyphellae golden-yellow, scattered, sparse, without a defined margin, 0.1-0.4 mm diam. Apothecia not seen. Chemistry: Pulvinic lactone, pulvinic acid, calycin, 2α-acetoxystictane-3β,22α-diol, 2α,3β,22α-triacetoxystictane, 2α,3β-diacetoxystictan-22α-ol,stictane-3β,22α-diol (±), 3β-acetoxystictane-2α,22α-diol (±), stictane-2α,3β,22α-triol (±). (Dr A.L. Wilkins in litt.).

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Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway
Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway
Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway
Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway
Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway
Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway
Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway

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Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
3 November 2014
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