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Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris

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Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris in Aptroot et al., Biblioth. Lichenol. 64: 164 (1997)
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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(Bres.) R.C.Harris
Bres.
R.C.Harris
1997
164
ICN
species
Pyrenula nitidula

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nitidula

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Thallus epi- or endophloeodal, greyish-white, pale greenish-white to yellowish-white, or ± lacking of effuse, matt or slightly roughened, often ± waxy, continuous or irregularly to coarsely areolate-cracked, in irregular patches, 1-5(-8) cm diam., delimited at margins by a narrow, irregular, black line. Perithecia frequent and conspicuous, emergent, 0.5-1.8 mm diam., discrete, rarely 2-3- confluent, rounded, flattish to distinctly convex, subglobose and even slightly constricted at base in specimens where cortex is eroded or lacking, pale whitish at first, obscured by a thin covering of cortical cells, then black, matt or shining, sometimes eroding and leaving small pits. Ostiole central, depressed, gaping or papillate. Pycnidia minute, black, punctiform, scattered. Ascospores uniseriate, oblong-ovoid, lemon-shaped, (15.3-)17-22(-25) × (8.3-)10.2-11.9 µm. Chemistry: Cortex K+ yellow-dirty brown. TLC-.

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Melanomma nitidulum Bres.
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris
Pyrenula cinereoglauca Zahlbr.
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris
Pyrenula dealbata (C.Knight) Müll.Arg.
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris
Verrucaria dealbata C.Knight
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris
Verrucaria glabrata var. cinereoalba C.Knight
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris
Verrucaria inflata Stirt.
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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New Zealand
Otago Land District
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Pyrenula nitidula (Bres.) R.C.Harris
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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20 September 2013
13 January 2017
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