Phaeophyscia Moberg
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Phaeophyscia Moberg (1977)
Phaeophyscia Moberg
Biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
A genus of 28 species worldwide with its main area of speciation in SE Asia. Five species are known in New Zealand, but the genus is still much in need of study and collection here.
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Phaeophyscia Moberg
Thallus heteromerous, foliose, dorsiventral, lobate to fruticose, ± loosely attached. Upper surface greyish-brown to brown, never white-pruinose. Photobiont green, . Medulla white or in the lower part orange-red (skyrin). Lower surface brownish or black, corticate, paraplectenchymatous, of thick-walled isodiametric cells. Apothecia lecanorine, laminal, ± sessile, with rhizines on underside, disc brown to black. Ascospores brown, thick-walled, 1-septate, 8 per ascus. Pycnidia laminal, immersed. Conidia ellipsoid, small.
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1 January 2000
11 May 2010