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Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen

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Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen (1937)
Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Austral

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(Räsänen) Räsänen
Räsänen
Räsänen
1937
199
ICN
species
Usnea pusilla

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pusilla

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Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen

Thallus rather delicate, shrubby, ± fruticose or decumbent-straggling, 1-2.5 (rarely to 4) cm long, blackened at base, pale greenish-yellow, sparsely branched, 1-3-branched at base. Branches 1 mm thick at base tapering towards apices, terete, distinctly papillate, articulate-cracked, fibrils or secondary branches at right angles to main, inflated primary branches sparse to moderate, occasionally dense, matt or shining, waxy, lacking isidia, pseudocyphellae, soredia or spinules. Apothecia moderate to frequent, subterminal, geniculate, disc concave to plane, 1.5-2 mm wide, disc white-pruinose, margins with ray-like branchlets, exciple smooth, matt or slightly faveolate-wrinkled. Ascospores 9 × 5-6 µm. Chemistry: Usnic acid.

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Usnea florida var. pusilla Räsänen
Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen
Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen
Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen
Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen
Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen
Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen

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Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Usnea pusilla (Räsänen) Räsänen
New Zealand
Otago Land District

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8fe573db-eb8f-4aac-a985-b58bd19ef668
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 February 2016
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