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Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.

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Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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(Nyl.) Nyl.
Nyl.
Nyl.
1888
57
ICN
species
Placopsis subgelida

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subgelida

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Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.

Thallus determinate, suborbicular, forming effigurate patches, to 4 cm diam., saxicolous. Marginal lobes broad, plane, smooth, 1.5-5 mm long, 1-2.5 mm broad, contiguous, separated by cracks, 0.1-0.3 mm wide, subcuneate, irregularly branched, apices rounded or subcrenulate and produced inwards towards centre. Upper surface smooth, irregularly cracked, not areolate, creamish, matt, white-pruinose, without isidia or soredia. Cephalodia scattered, sessile, suborbicular to irregular, flattened, 2-7 mm diam., effigurate, with radiating folds and cracks, dark pinkish or pale brownish, matt. Apothecia irregularly scattered, rounded, to 2 mm diam., subpedicellate, thalline margin thick, entire, rounded, white-pruinose, disc plane or subconcave, red-brown or reddish, matt, slightly pruinose. Hymenium 285-320 µm tall, epithecium with sordid yellow crystals. Hypothecium colourless. Paraphyses not thickened at apices. Ascospores uniseriate, ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid 25-30 × 12-21 µm. Pycnidia immersed, ostioles minute, black, punctiform. Conidia not seen. Chemistry: Cortex K-, C+ rose; medulla K- or pale yellow, C+ rose, Pd-.

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Lecanora subgelida Nyl.
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
Lecanora subgelida Nyl.
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Endemic

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Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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82761443-cb9c-4262-90e1-d3ec3987c88c
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
11 October 2013
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