Dermatocarpon weberi (Ach.) W.Mann

Details

Name scientific

Dermatocarpon weberi (Ach.) W.Mann (1825)

Preferred name

Dermatocarpon luridum (With.) J.R.Laundon

Nomenclature

Authors

(Ach.) W.Mann

Original authors

Ach.

Combination authors

W.Mann

Year published

1825

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Dermatocarpon weberi

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Verrucariales

Family

Verrucariaceae

Genus

Dermatocarpon

Species

weberi

Descriptions

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

Dermatocarpon weberi (Ach.) W.Mann

Description

Thallus dark greenish-brown when wet, brown-black when dry, sub-monophyllous to ± polyphyllous, often deeply, and complicately lobed, leathery, margins entire, somewhat thickened, in clumps 2-5 cm diam., saxicolous. Upper surface minutely scabrid, sometimes ± grey-pruinose. Lower surface brown or pinkish-buff, smooth or wrinkled, with a single stout, ± central holdfast, or with a few scattered rhizines. Perithecia immersed, ostioles dark brown to black, minute. Ascospores 10-16 × 6-9 µm. Cosmopolitan

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Dermatocarpon weberi (Ach.) W.Mann

Dermatocarpon weberi (Ach.) W.Mann

Galloway, D. J. (1985)

Notes

Note type

editorial

Note text

Dermatacarpon miniatum var. complicatum (Lightf.) Th.Fr. was recorded in earlier accounts of New Zealand lichens as Endocarpon fluviatile and Dermatocarpon fluviatile (Babington 1855: 306; Hooker 1867: 592; Nylander 1888: 228; Müller Argoviensis 1894: 87; Hellbom 1896: 131) and as Dermatocarpon weberi (Galloway 1985a: 156).

Note reference

Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 1. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Metadata

Record id

7c12a6de-ffca-42c4-b41e-fa377d83ef9f

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

1 January 2000

Date last updated

11 August 2009

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