Phlyctis (Wallr.) Flot.
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Phlyctis (Wallr.) Flot. (1850)
Phlyctis (Wallr.) Flot.
Biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
A genus of c. 20 species worldwide. It has its greatest species diversity in cool temperate rainforest vegetation in New Zealand where at present six species are recorded although at least two undescribed, large-spore species are known. Five species are endemic to New Zealand and one is Australasian, and additional taxa are known from Chile, tropical South America, and India.
Nomenclature
(Wallr.) Flot.
Wallr.
Flot.
1850
1850
ICN
genus
Phlyctis
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Thallus crustose, thin, effuse, granular, powdery or continuous, ± coriaceous, matt or shining, whitish or pale glaucous grey to olivaceous, sometimes white-arachnoid towards margins, spreading in irregular patches or ± orbicular, corticolous. Photobiont green, . Apothecia immersed to sessile, ± urceolate, rounded to irregular, lecanorine, disc concave to plane, pale yellowish-brown to red-brown or blackened, with or without a whitish pruina, margins entire, or split and fractured and somewhat gyalectiform, with or without farinose soredia. Hymenium 130-200(-250) µm tall, colourless. Epithecium granular, brown-black. Paraphyses slender, septate, densely conglutinate, anastomosing, apices swollen, suffused yellowish-brown. Hypothecium colourless or straw-yellow to dark brown. Ascospores (1-)4-8 per ascus, fusiform, and slightly curved to oblong-ellipsoid, colourless, 3-13(-23)-septate, cells lenticular.
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1 January 2000
1 June 2010