Bacidia albidoprasina C.Knight

Details

Name scientific

Bacidia albidoprasina C.Knight, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 12: 374 (1880)

Preferred name

Bacidia albidoprasina C.Knight

Taxonomy reference

Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 1. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Linked name

Bacidia albidoprasina C. Knight 1880

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

N: Northland (Anawhata), South Auckland (Kihikihi) to Wellington.

Nomenclature

Original authors

C.Knight

Authors

C.Knight

Publication place

Knight, C. 1880: Contributions to the lichenographia of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 12: 367–379.

Year published

1880

Publication page

374

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Bacidia albidoprasina C.Knight

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Bacidia albidoprasina

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Bacidiaceae

Genus

Bacidia

Species

albidoprasina

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Bacidia albidoprasina C.Knight

Description

Thallus pale greenish or olivaceous-grey, thin, smooth, very minutely areolate-cracked, intersected and delimited by black or brown wavy lines, in patches or bands 2-5 cm diam. Apothecia pale pinkish or orange-brownish, sessile, plane or convex, 0.4- 1.2 mm diam., margins entire or crenulate, pale whitish, transparent when wet, or lacking. Hymenium 70-86 µm tall, pale straw-coloured. Hypothecium 300 µm thick, orange-yellow. Ascospores acicular, indistinctly 3-7-septate, 44-88 × 1-2 µm.