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Usnea subcapillaris (D.J.Galloway) F.J.Walker

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Usnea subcapillaris (D.J.Galloway) F.J.Walker (1985)
Usnea subcapillaris (D.J.Galloway) F.J.Walker

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Australasian

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(D.J.Galloway) F.J.Walker
D.J.Galloway
F.J.Walker
1985
104
ICN
species
Usnea subcapillaris

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subcapillaris

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Thallus fruticose, subpendulous to pendulous, rarely straggling and ± decumbent, spreading, to 15 cm long. Branches fine, filiform, sparingly divided to richly branched, becoming complex-entangled towards apices, primary branches 2-3 mm wide and 2-5 cm long, secondary branches 0.2 mm wide and 1-10 cm long. Surfaces smooth, waxy, with transverse black cracks and often alternate black and yellow banding, basal branches pale yellow, secondary branchlets consistently blackened or with black and yellow banding. Medulla lax. Chondroid axis 1/3 to ½ of diam. of branch. Soredia absent. Apothecia rare, lateral, geniculate, disc buff to blue-black, margin furnished with 10-30 ray-like branchlets, thalline exciple smooth to wrinkled. Chemistry: Cortex K-; medulla K+ yellow-red, C-, KC+ red, Pd+ yellow. Norstictic, ± protocetraric, salazinic and usnic acids. In addition, two other chemodemes are known from New Zealand population, one containing psoromic, conpsoromic and usnic acids, the other with squamatic, hypothamnolic (UV+) and usnic acids.

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Neuropogon subcapillaris (D.J.Galloway) D.J.Galloway
Usnea subcapillaris (D.J.Galloway) F.J.Walker
Usnea ciliata var. subcapillaris D.J.Galloway
Usnea subcapillaris (D.J.Galloway) F.J.Walker
Usnea subcapillaris (D.J.Galloway) F.J.Walker
Usnea subcapillaris (D.J.Galloway) F.J.Walker
Usnea subcapillaris (D.J.Galloway) F.J.Walker

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Usnea subcapillaris (D.J.Galloway) F.J.Walker
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Usnea subcapillaris (D.J.Galloway) F.J.Walker
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Usnea subcapillaris (D.J.Galloway) F.J.Walker
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Usnea subcapillaris (D.J.Galloway) F.J.Walker
New Zealand
Otago Land District

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81f2f0b1-1fb8-4494-808c-115ace7fd4bd
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 February 2016
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