Leptogium plicatile (Ach.) Leight.

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Name scientific

Leptogium plicatile (Ach.) Leight. (1879)

Preferred name

Scytinium plicatile (Ach.) Otálora, P.M.Jørg. & Wedin

Linked name

Leptogium plicatile (Ach.) Leight.

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Leight.

Original authors

Ach.

Authors

(Ach.) Leight.

Year published

1879

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Basionym

Lichen plicatilis Ach.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Leptogium plicatile

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Collemataceae

Genus

Leptogium

Species

plicatile

Descriptions

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

Leptogium plicatile (Ach.) Leight.

Description

Thallus small, irregularly pulvinate to 1 cm diam., saxicolous, irregularly lobed, dark brown to black. Lobes elongate, rounded to flattened, margins entire, to 1 mm wide, surface granular-isidiate, irregularly wrinkled-plicate. Apothecia common, sessile, laminal, 0.5-1 mm diam., disc concave, brown to dark red-brown, thalline exciple entire, concolorous with thallus. Ascospores ellipsoid, apices rounded to pointed, 3-septate to submuriform, 20-24 × 7-9 µm.

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