Trapelia coarctata (Turner ex Sm.) M.Choisy

Details

Name scientific

Trapelia coarctata (Turner ex Sm.) M.Choisy (1932)

Preferred name

Trapelia coarctata (Turner ex Sm.) M.Choisy

Taxonomy reference

Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 2. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Linked name

Trapelia coarctata (Turner ex Sm.) M.Choisy

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

Cosmopolitan

Nomenclature

Authors

(Turner ex Sm.) M.Choisy

Original authors

Sm.

Combination authors

M.Choisy

Year published

1932

Publication page

160

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lichen coarctatus Turner ex Sm.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Trapelia coarctata

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Agyriales

Family

Trapeliaceae

Genus

Trapelia

Species

coarctata

Synonyms

Descriptions

Galloway, D. J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Government Printer, Wellington.

Trapelia coarctata (Turner ex Sm.) M.Choisy

Description

Thallus rather smooth, green-white, grey or brown often tinged pinkish, continuous, cracked-areolate or with areolae dispersed and ± squamulose at margins. Apothecia 0.2-2 mm diam., round, scattered, disc red-brown to brown- black, ± roughened, sometimes with a pseudothalline margin caused by its eruption through the thallus, part of which may remain adhering. Ascospores ellipsoid, 14-17 × 7-10 µm. Chemistry: Cortex C+ red. Gyrophoric acid.