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Rhizocarpon reductum Th.Fr.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Bipolar

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Th.Fr.
Th.Fr.
1874
633
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Rhizocarpon reductum Th.Fr.
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Rhizocarpon reductum

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reductum

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Thallus crustose, spreading, closely attached, tartareous, greyish-white, continuous to areolate-cracked, prothallus indistinct or lacking. Areolae to 1 mm diam., separated by very narrow cracks, plane, smooth, matt. Apothecia numerous, innate, scattered between areolae, disc black, plane to subconvex, epruinose. Hymenium colourless 100-120 µm tall. Paraphyses capillary, straight, not much branched, not swollen at apices. Asci ellipsoid-clavate, rounded at apices, 8-spored. Ascospores colourless becoming brownish, ellipsoid to oval, muriform, cells minute, angular, 27-29 × 9-11 µm, halonate.
Thallus crustose, orbicular to spreading, to 8 cm diam., areolate, prothallus indistinct or absent. Areolae small, 0.2-0.3 mm diam., greyish-white, plane to convex, often almost nodular-papillate, separated by narrow black, cracks. Apothecia crowded, scattered, sessile, rounded, black, shining, epruinose, 0.5-1 mm diam., plane to convex, margins prominent, entire. Hymenium brownish, 120 µm tall. Paraphyses filiform, not much branched. Hypothecium thick, brown-black. Asci 8-spored, oval-clavate, apices rounded. Ascospores triseriate, colourless to brownish, ellipsoid, apices rounded, muriform, 18-23 × 7.5-9 mm, surface corrugate.

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Rhizocarpon convexulum Zahlbr.
Rhizocarpon reductum Th.Fr.
Rhizocarpon obscuratum auct. non (Ach.) A.Massal.
Rhizocarpon reductum Th.Fr.
Rhizocarpon reductum Th.Fr.
Rhizocarpon reductum Th.Fr.
Rhizocarpon reductum Th.Fr.
Rhizocarpon thomsonii Zahlbr.
Rhizocarpon reductum Th.Fr.
Rhizocarpon thomsonii f. fuscidulum Zahlbr.
Rhizocarpon reductum Th.Fr.

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New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Rhizocarpon reductum Th.Fr.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Rhizocarpon reductum Th.Fr.
New Zealand
Otago Land District

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16 July 2010
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