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Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot

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Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot, Fl. Austral. 57, 660 (2009)
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Australasian distribution cited in Galloway (2007) for Laurera elatior.

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Aptroot
Stirt.
(Stirt.) Aptroot
2009
660
ICN
species
Aptrootia elatior

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elatior

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Thallus crustose, spreading in irregular patches, 2-8(-10) cm diam., pale olive greenish, yellowish-fawn, pale yellow or grey-yellow to glaucous brown, nodular-papillate in humps or concrescent lumps, 0.3-1.2 mm diam., ± glebose, minutely white-papillate, thick, shining or dull. Perithecia often densely crowded in prominent hemispherical thalline verrucae, monocarpic, 0.4-1.5 mm diam., apical pore black, indented to 0.2 or 0.3 mm diam. Excipulum carbonised, red-brown. Paraphyses colourless, branched-reticulate. Ascospores very large 1, occasionally 2 per ascus, encased inside a gelatinous sac which is extruded with the ascospores, which becomes dark red-brown with age, densely muriform, wall of two distinct layers, 230-330 mm × 60-90 µm.

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Anthracothecium monosporum Müll.Arg.
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Anthracothecium monosporum Müll.Arg.
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Ascidium elatius Stirt.
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Ascidium elatius Stirt.
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Ascidium elatius Stirt.
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Ascidium melanosporum C.Knight
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Laurera elatior (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Laurera elatior (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Polyblastiopsis monosporum (Müll.Arg.) Upreti & Ajay Singh
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
Polyblastiopsis monosporum (Müll.Arg.) Upreti & Ajay Singh
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot

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Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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9b9d346e-9dec-4257-980f-5f0b634dff5b
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Names_Plants
23 November 2009
2 June 2015
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