Porina leptostegia (C.Knight) Müll.Arg.

Details

Name scientific

Porina leptostegia (C.Knight) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2: 92 (1894)

Preferred name

Porina leptostegia (C.Knight) Müll.Arg.

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

Porina leptostegia (C.Knight) Müll.Arg.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

Endemic

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Müll.Arg.

Original authors

C.Knight

Authors

(C.Knight) Müll.Arg.

Publication place

Müller Argoviensis, J. 1894: Conspectus systematicus lichenum Novae Zelandiae. Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier 2(app. 1): 1–114.

Year published

1894

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Verrucaria leptostegia C.Knight

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Porina leptostegia

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Trichotheliales

Family

Trichotheliaceae

Genus

Porina

Species

leptostegia

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Porina leptostegia (C.Knight) Müll.Arg.

Description

Thallus 1-3(-5) cm diam., in irregular mosaics, pale grey or whitish, effuse, minutely arachnoid, ecorticate, regularly areolate-cracked, following contours of bark, areolae 0.5-1.2 mm diam. Perithecia sparse, black, subconvex, rarely semi-immersed, 0.05-0.3 mm diam. Paraphyses filiform. Asci narrowly clavate, 8-spored, spores spirally arranged in ascus, 67 × 12 µm. Ascospores fusiform, rounded or pointed at ends, 3-7-septate, 18.7-22.1 × 3.4-5.1 µm.