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Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.

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Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal. (1853)
Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.
Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 1. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.
Names_Fungi record source Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Galloway, D.J. (2007)
Bipolar

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(L.) A.Massal.
L.
A.Massal.
1853
212
ICN
Lichen pallescens L.
species
Ochrolechia pallescens

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Fungi
Ascomycota
Ascomycetes
Pertusariales
Pertusariaceae
Ochrolechia
pallescens

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

Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.

Thallus whitish or cream, rarely greyish, to 0.5 mm thick, continuous, wrinkled, diffract-areolate, irregularly warted or granular, warts swollen, in orbicular patches 3-6(-10) cm diam., corticolous. Apothecia sessile, 2-3 mm wide, round to irregular, disc concave to plane, scabrid, densely white-pruinose, pinkish-yellow or buff-coloured beneath pruina, margins white, 0.4-0.5 mm thick, entire, swollen. Ascospores 6-8 per ascus, ovoid, 49-58 × 25-30 µm. Chemistry: Cortex K-, C-, KC-, Pd-. Disc K-, C+ rose, KC+ red, Pd-. Gyrophoric acid.

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Lecidea implicata Stirt.
Lecidea implicata Stirt.
Galloway, D.J. (2007)
Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.
Lichen pallescens L.
Lichen pallescens L.
Galloway, D.J. (2007)
Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.
Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.
Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.
Galloway, D. J. (1985)
Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.
Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.
Galloway, D.J. (2007)
Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.

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Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
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Ochrolechia pallescens (L.) A.Massal.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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7f3d2372-43d7-4028-a7fb-7f1c99339bbf
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
18 November 2010
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