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Parmeliella gymnocheila (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.

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Parmeliella gymnocheila (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2: 44 (1894)
Parmeliella gymnocheila (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Australasian

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(Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
Nyl.
Müll.Arg.
1894
44
ICN
species
Parmeliella gymnocheila

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gymnocheila

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Parmeliella gymnocheila (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.

Thallus stellate-radiating, orbicular, closely attached, often minutely squamulose at margins, to 3 cm diam., bordered by a black or greyish, felted prothallus c. 0.5 mm wide, corticolous or saxicolous. Lobes narrow, 1-2 mm wide, sublinear, irregular, becoming imbricate and wrinkled-corrugate centrally, margins shallowly incised, slightly darkening, greyish-blue. Upper surface smooth, matt, often minutely wrinkled (×10 lens), scabrid, pale yellowish- to brownish-grey, sorediate. Soredia coarse granular, bluish-grey, mostly central, often forming a dense diffract-areolate crust. Lower surface dark brown or black, shining at margins, pale tomentose centrally. Apothecia sessile, to 1 mm diam., ± prominent, central, disc red-brown to blackened, plane to convex, proper margin entire, pale brownish to pinkish, persistent. Ascospores ellipsoid, 16-18 × 9-11 µm.

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Pannaria gymnocheila Nyl.
Parmeliella gymnocheila (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
Parmeliella gymnocheila (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
Parmeliella gymnocheila (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
Parmeliella gymnocheila (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
Parmeliella gymnocheila (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
Parmeliella gymnocheila (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.

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Parmeliella gymnocheila (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Parmeliella gymnocheila (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Parmeliella gymnocheila (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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7cd8d59f-200a-42c2-9e52-96ead60a2853
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
9 April 2010
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