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Lichina confinis (O.F.Müll.) C.Agardh

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Lichina confinis (O.F.Müll.) C.Agardh (1821)
Lichina confinis (O.F.Müll.) C.Agardh
Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 1. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

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Absent
New Zealand
Political Region
Schultz, M. (2017)
The southern hemisphere material that was regarded as a Lichina confinis by many workers, was confirmed as a separate species (Lichina intermedia) by Schultz (2017), whose results indicated that Lichina confinis is a purely northern hemisphere species.

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C.Agardh
O.F.Müll.
(O.F.Müll.) C.Agardh
1821
105
ICN
Lichen confinis O.F.Müll.
species
Lichina confinis

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Fungi
Ascomycota
Ascomycetes
Lichinales
Lichinaceae
Lichina
confinis

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

Lichina confinis (O.F.Müll.) C.Agardh

Thallus fruticose, erect, tufted, in clumps, or forming ± coalescing swards 1-4(-8) cm diam. Lobes flattened, ± palmately divided, becoming terete only near apices, to 10 mm tall and 0.1-0.2 mm thick, irregularly branched, apices blunt ± furcate, shiny dark brown to black or olive-greenish, gelatinous when wet, with a well-defined cortex of cuboid-rectangular cells. Apothecia terminal, globose or flask-like, 0.1-0.5 mm diam., disc concave. Ascospores broadly to narrowly ellipsoid 18-22.4 × 6.4-9.6 µm, straight, apices rounded.

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Lichen confinis O.F.Müll.
Lichen confinis O.F.Müll.
Galloway, D.J. (2007)
Lichen confinis O.F.Müll.
Lichina confinis (O.F.Müll.) C.Agardh
Lichina confinis (O.F.Müll.) Ahardh
Galloway, D. J. (1985)
Lichina confinis (O.F.Müll.) C.Agardh
Lichina confinis (O.F.Müll.) C.Agardh
Galloway, D.J. (2007)
Lichina confinis (O.F.Müll.) C.Agardh

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Galloway, D.J. (2007)
Cosmopolitan

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89ad1b82-f13e-4808-8843-64cf1700b02a
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
13 October 2010
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