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Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme

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Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme (1914)
Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Cosmopolitan

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(Schaer.) Malme
Schaer.
Malme
1914
282
ICN
species
Rhizocarpon superficiale

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superficiale

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Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme

Thallus crustose, spreading, 2-10 cm diam., prothallus conspicuous. Areolae close together, widely dispersed, usually separated by black strips of prothallus, some specimens with a distinct border formed of young areolae of characteristic shape, 0.3-2.5 mm diam., angular, concave to plane to convex, or rounded- angular to rounded and convex, yellowish-white to yellow to greenish-yellow, surface smooth, matt or glossy or scabrid. Apothecia 0.6-2 mm diam., round to angular, usually higher than surrounding areolae, plane to subconvex, with a distinct persistent margin, surface matt, minutely papillate, "sooty". Hymenium 70-100 µm tall, colourless to brownish, dark reddish or greenish in upper parts. Asci clavate, 60-80 × 15 µm. Hypothecium brown, 60-150 mm tall. Ascospores 8 per ascus, 1-septate, small, 11-18 × 6-8 µm. Chemistry: Medulla K+ red, Pd+ yellow, or K+ yellow and Pd+ brick red (rarely K-, Pd-). Rhizocarpic, stictic or norstictic acids, rarely psoromic acid.

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Buellia atroflavella (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme
Catocarpon atroflavellum (Nyl.) Hellb.
Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme
Lecidea atroflavella Nyl.
Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme
Lecidea superficialis Schaer.
Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme
Rhizocarpon atroflavellum (Nyl.) Zahlbr.
Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme
Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme
Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme
Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme
Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme
Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme

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Rhizocarpon superficiale (Schaer.) Malme
New Zealand
Otago Land District

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d766eca6-17cb-4b23-9cc3-569419c71bda
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
19 July 2010
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