Melanotheca irregularis Zahlbr.

Details

Name scientific

Melanotheca irregularis Zahlbr., Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Kl., Denkschr. 104: 256 (1941)

Preferred name

Pyrenula anomala (Ach.) Vain.

Taxonomy reference

Aptroot, A. 2012: A world key to the species of Anthracothecium and Pyrenula. The Lichenologist 44: 5–53.

Nomenclature

Original authors

Zahlbr.

Authors

Zahlbr.

Publication place

Zahlbruckner, A. 1941: Lichenes Novae-Zelandiae A Cl. H.H. Allan eiusque collaboratoribus lecti. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse. Denkschriften 104: 249–380.

Year published

1941

Publication page

256

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Melanotheca irregularis Zahlbr.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Melanotheca irregularis

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Verrucariales

Family

Verrucariaceae

Genus

Melanotheca

Species

irregularis

Descriptions

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

Melanotheca irregularis Zahlbr.

Description

Thallus whitish to dingy brownish, often blackened, spreading in irregular patches, 2-5 cm diam., areolate, areolae irregular, rarely subsquamulose, angular, convex, on a narrow black prothallus. Pseudothecia in stromata, 2-9 together, irregularly rounded or oblong, convex, concolorous with thallus, ostioles minute, black, 0.1 mm diam., or less. Ascospores uniseriate, cylindrical-ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, apices rounded, 3-septate, 4 locules rounded or angular to ± diamond-shaped 12-19.2 × 4-6.4 µm.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Melanotheca irregularis Zahlbr.

Melanotheca irregularis Zahlbr.

Aptroot, A. (2012)

Pyrenula anomala (Ach.) Vain.

Melanotheca irregularis Zahlbr.

Melanotheca irregularis Zahlbr.

Galloway, D. J. (1985)

Melanotheca irregularis Zahlbr.

Melanotheca irregularis Zahlbr.

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

Pyrenula occulta (C.Knight) Müll.Arg.

Collections

Determined name

Country

Geographic region

Indicative databased records

Melanotheca irregularis Zahlbr.

New Zealand

Otago Land District

Metadata

Record id

996f247f-ee67-48c6-a51a-8a6d469e24c7

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

1 January 2000

Date last updated

24 February 2017

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