Arthothelium ampliatum (C.Knight & Mitt.) Müll.Arg.

Details

Name scientific

Arthothelium ampliatum (C.Knight & Mitt.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2: 85 (1894)

Preferred name

Arthothelium ampliatum (C.Knight & Mitt.) Müll.Arg.

Taxonomy reference

Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 1. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Linked name

Arthothelium ampliatum (C. Knight & Mitt.) Müll. Arg. 1894

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Kantvilas, G. (2021)

Known from Tasmania and mainland Australia

Nomenclature

Authors

(C.Knight & Mitt.) Müll.Arg.

Original authors

C.Knight & Mitt.

Combination authors

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

Arthonia ampliata C.Knight & Mitt.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Arthothelium ampliatum

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Arthoniales

Genus

Arthothelium

Species

ampliatum

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Arthothelium ampliatum (C.Knight & Mitt.) Müll.Arg.

Description

Thallus glaucous-grey or greenish-grey, matt, smooth, ± areolate-cracked. Ascocarps innate, scattered or ± parallel, rounded or oblong 0.4-1.2 mm diam., partially veiled at margins by ruptured thallus, carbonaceous, matt, flat, blackish-brown. Ascospores brown 6-7-locular, upper cell the longer, 30-36 × 12 µm.

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

Arthothelium obtusulum (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.

Description

Thallus whitish, thin, matt, cracked. Ascocarps black, sessile ± elongate, 0.4 mm wide. Ascospores ellipsoid, colourless, 4-locular, 21-24 × 11-13 µm.

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

Arthothelium pellucidum (C.Knight) Müll.Arg.

Description

Thallus whitish to greyish-white, very thin, rather eroded, smooth, or ± hummocky, cobwebby or occasionally cracked to ± continuous. Ascocarps 0.2-1.1 mm diam., black, depressed-innate, rounded to effigurate, often branched, ± covered by thallus, interior pellucid. Ascospores cuneate-oblong, brownish, 6-locular, 20 × 8 µm.