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Rhizocarpon candidum C.W.Dodge

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Rhizocarpon candidum C.W.Dodge (1948)
Rhizocarpon candidum C.W.Dodge

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C.W.Dodge
C.W.Dodge
1948
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Rhizocarpon candidum

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candidum

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Rhizocarpon candidum C.W.Dodge

Thallus thick, white, areolate-cracked, margins zonate, determinate, cracking radially, prothallus narrow to wide, black. Areolae to 1 mm diam., sometimes sorediate. Soralia to 0.5 mm diam., leaving white pits. Apothecia innate, disc black 0.1-0.2 mm diam. Hymenium 160 µm tall. Paraphyses slender, flexuous, branched and anastomosing, repeatedly branching above asci, apices moniliform, dark brown. Asci cylindrical 125-130 × 35 µm, 8-spored. Ascospores uniseriate, broad, ellipsoid 25-50 × 15-18 µm colourless at first becoming brownish with age, muriform.

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Rhizocarpon candidum C.W.Dodge
Rhizocarpon candidum C.W.Dodge

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taxonomic status
The taxon Rhizocarpon candidum C.W.Dodge (Dodge 1948: 114; Galloway 1985a: 504) is referable to Pertusaria.

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