Bacidia leucocarpa C.Knight

Details

Name scientific

Bacidia leucocarpa C.Knight, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 12: 373 (1880)

Preferred name

Bacidia leucocarpa C.Knight

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

Bacidia leucocarpa C. Knight 1880 [1879]

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

Australasian. "Known only from the type collections [of this name and synonyms] but probably widely distributed in damp, shaded, undisturbed habitats."

Nomenclature

Authors

C.Knight

Original authors

C.Knight

Publication place

Knight, C. 1880: Contributions to the lichenographia of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 12: 367–379.

Year published

1880

Publication page

373

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Bacidia leucocarpa C.Knight

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Bacidia leucocarpa

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Bacidiaceae

Genus

Bacidia

Species

leucocarpa

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Bacidia leucocarpa C.Knight

Description

Thallus pale greenish or whitish-grey to olive-glaucous, continuous or ± areolate-cracked, or minutely verrucose-rugose or papillate or ± granular in parts, in patches 2-5(-8) cm diam., surface matt, not scabrid. Apothecia sessile to ± immersed, plane to convex, immarginate, 0.1-1.2 mm diam., round to irregular, scattered, pale yellowish-fawn to pinkish-brown, waxy, smooth, epruinose. Epithecium pale olive-brownish 4-15 µm thick. Hymenium colourless, 65-90 µm tall. Hypothecium golden brown. Ascospores (3-)5-8(-10)-septate, (35-)40-55(-68) × 1.5-2.5 µm, spirally curved.