Verrucaria fusconigrescens Nyl.

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Name scientific

Verrucaria fusconigrescens Nyl. (1873 [1872])

Preferred name

Verrucaria fusconigrescens Nyl.

Taxonomy reference

Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 2. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Linked name

Verrucaria fusconigrescens Nyl.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

Cosmopolitan

Nomenclature

Authors

Nyl.

Original authors

Nyl.

Year published

1873

Year on publication

1872

Publication page

313

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Verrucaria fusconigrescens Nyl.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Verrucaria fusconigrescens

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Verrucariales

Family

Verrucariaceae

Genus

Verrucaria

Species

fusconigrescens

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Verrucaria submargacea C.Knight

Description

Thallus olive-brownish or blackish, continuous to distinctly areolate-cracked, very thin, areolae angular, minute, thin (0.1 mm thick), roughened, dull, continuous or cracked, smooth to uneven, prothallus ± distinct, saxicolous. Perithecia scattered, coal-black, shining or dull, ± swollen, sessile, convex, 0.2-0.3 mm diam., ostioles minute. Ascospores biseriate, ellipsoid, contents minutely granular, occasionally appearing spuriously 1-septate, 16-24 × 9-11 µm.