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Polysporina Vězda

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Polysporina Vězda, Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 13: 399 (1978)
Polysporina Vězda
Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 2. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.
Names_Fungi record source Polysporina Vězda 1978

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Galloway, D.J. (2007)
Genus of 10 species; one in New Zealand

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Vězda
Vězda
Vězda, A. 1978: Neue oder wenig bekannte Flechten in der Tschechoslowakei. II. Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica 13(4): 397–420.
1978
399
ICN
Polysporina Vězda
Polysporina simplex (Davies) Vězda
genus
Polysporina

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Fungi
Ascomycota
Ascomycetes
Lecanorales
Acarosporaceae
Polysporina

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

Polysporina Vězda

Thallus crustose. Photobiont green, , or parasitic and without symbiotic algae. Apothecia black, at first pyrenocarpous then lecideine, disc umbilicate, warted, rugose or gyrose, margins raised, cracked, involute. Exciple carbonised, at least on the outside. Paraphyses branched, anastomosing, indistinctly septate, apices always thickened, often confluent. Asci cylindrical-clavate, walls moderately thin, apices thickened. Ascospores very minute, simple, colourless, ellipsoid or bacillar, many per ascus.

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Polysporina Vězda
Polysporina Vězda
Galloway, D. J. (1985)
Polysporina Vězda
Polysporina Vězda
Galloway, D.J. (2007)
Polysporina Vězda

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The genus should be a synonym of Acarospora as "Polysporina will be thus be treated as a synonym to Acarospora", However there is no combination in Acarospora for Polysporina subfuscescens.
Westberg, M.; Millanes, A.; Knudsen, K.; Wedin, M. 2015: Phylogeny of Acarosporaceae (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota, Fungi) and the evolution of carbonized ascomata. Fungal Diversity 73: 145–158.

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1 January 2000
27 March 2020
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