Polymeridium suffusum (C.Knight) Aptroot

Details

Name scientific

Polymeridium suffusum (C.Knight) Aptroot, Nova Hedwigia 98: 26 (2014)

Preferred name

Polymeridium suffusum (C.Knight) Aptroot

Taxonomy reference

Aptroot, A; da Silva CáceresCáceres, M.E. 2014: A refined species concept in the tropical microlichen genus Polymeridium (Trypetheliaceae) doubles the number of known species, with a world key to species. Nova Hedwigia 98: 1–29.

Linked name

Polymeridium suffusum (C.Knight) Aptroot

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Aptroot, A; da Silva CáceresCáceres, M.E. (2014)

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Aptroot

Original authors

C.Knight

Authors

(C.Knight) Aptroot

Publication place

Year published

2014

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Verrucaria suffusa C.Knight

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Polymeridium suffusum

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Pyrenulales

Family

Trypetheliaceae

Genus

Polymeridium

Species

suffusum

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Arthopyrenia suffusa (C.Knight) Müll.Arg.

Description

Thallus greyish-white, spreading in well defined patches 2-4 cm diam., continuous, shining in parts, ± cobwebby in others, effuse, limited by a ± prominent black line of prothallus, corticolous. Perithecia emergent, often veiled by cobwebby cortex, 0.05-0.3 mm diam., hemispherical, at length black, shining, ± carbonaceous, with a prominent, black, excavate apical pore. Ascospores oblong, 3-septate, 28 × 8 µm.