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Coenogonium Ehrenb.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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tropical/subtropical genus of 45–50 species

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Ehrenb.
Ehrenb.
1820
ICN
genus
Coenogonium

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Coenogonium

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Coenogonium Ehrenb.

Thallus loosely felted, byssoid, homoiomerous, of a vegetative mycelium surrounding cells of photobiont, either adnate or forming protuberant masses of various shapes, corticolous. Photobiont green, species of or . Apothecia on short stipes or sessile, round, lecideine, pale to bright yellow or pinkish. Ascospores simple or 1-septate, fusiform to oblong or bacillar, colourless. Pycnidia sessile or short stipitate, globose. Conidia simple, fusiform.
Thallus crustose, effuse, decorticate, thin, shining, yellowish-green to dark green or olive-green, on bark, mosses or rarely on rock. Photobiont green, . Apothecia sessile, scattered, rounded, ± lecideine, pale to intensely yellow or orange. Hypothecium colourless. Paraphyses simple, with thickened apices. Asci cylindrical to clavate, thin-walled, 8-spored. Ascospores colourless, 1- or 2-septate, spindle-shaped to ellipsoid.

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Coenogonium Ehrenb.
Coenogonium Ehrenb.
Coenogonium Ehrenb.
Coenogonium Ehrenb.
Coenogonium Ehrenb.
Dimerella Trevis.
Coenogonium Ehrenb.

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Coenogonium Ehrenb.
Fiji
Coenogonium Ehrenb.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Solomon Islands

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c519242e-1801-429e-968f-4e789e7f892c
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
31 July 2009
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