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Fuscidea V.Wirth & Vězda

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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some 20 species; four in New Zealand

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V.Wirth & Vězda
V.Wirth & Vězda
1972
ICN
genus
Fuscidea

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Fuscidea

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Fuscidea V.Wirth & Vězda

Thallus crustose, grey or brown or olivaceous, with a distinct marginal prothallus. Photobiont green, ?. Apothecia lecideine, black or brown-black. Epithecium red-brown, hymenium colourless. Exciple with a brown, sometimes very thick marginal part and an unpigmented innner part. Paraphyses simple or dichotomously branched, with slightly thickened apical cells. Hypothecium ± pale brown or colourless. Asci sub-cylindrical or clavate, 8-spored with a narrow amyloid tholus. Ascospores simple, colourless, ellipsoid-oblong, often curved, thick-walled. Pycnidia crateriform, semi-immersed, brown. Conidia ellipsoid-oblong 2.5-5 × 1.2-2 µm.

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Fuscidea V.Wirth & Vězda
Fuscidea V.Wirth & Vězda
Fuscidea V.Wirth & Vězda
Fuscidea V.Wirth & Vězda
Fuscidea V.Wirth & Vězda

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Fuscidea V.Wirth & Vězda
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Fuscidea V.Wirth & Vězda
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Fuscidea V.Wirth & Vězda
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
12 August 2009
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