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Chrysothrix Mont.

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Chrysothrix Mont., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 3, 18: 312-313 (1852)
Chrysothrix Mont.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Present
New Zealand
Political Region

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Mont.
Mont.
1852
312-313
conserved
ICN
Chrysothrix Mont.
genus
Chrysothrix

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Chrysothrix

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Chrysothrix Mont.

Thallus generally leprose (rarely endogenous), either byssaceous or crustose-leprose, thin to thick, non-corticate, bright yellow to vivid yellowish-green, unstratified and coloured throughout, being composed entirely of a mass of pulverulent, convex to spherical granules or anastomosing filaments, thallus margin absent, without lobes, prothallus not apparent. Photobiont green, Protococcaceae, cells spherical to 22 µm diam., both singly and in groups. Apothecia rare, to 2.0 mm diam., scattered or clustered, innate or superficial, orbicular, concave to spherical with a thin, non-corticate margin or immarginate, disc smooth, green to yellow-green to light orange or brownish, often yellow-pruinose. Paraphyses 1-1.5 mm thick, colourless, septate, richly anastomosing above asci. Ascospores 8 per ascus, narrowly obovoid to narrowly ellipsoid, straight or curved, colourless, 3-septate (rarely only 1-2-septate) the second cell often the largest of the four, 9-14 × 2.5-5 µm. Pycnidia absent.

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Chrysothrix Mont.
Chrysothrix Mont.
Chrysothrix Mont.
Chrysothrix Mont.
Chrysothrix Mont.

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Chrysothrix Mont.
Fiji
Chrysothrix Mont.
New Zealand
Otago Land District

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a0264cfc-d84c-46f5-8e5f-cd3e3f7b3beb
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
20 August 2021
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