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Caloplaca lactea (A.Massal.) Zahlbr.

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Caloplaca lactea (A.Massal.) Zahlbr. (1901)
Caloplaca lactea (A.Massal.) Zahlbr.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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?Cosmopolitan

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(A.Massal.) Zahlbr.
A.Massal.
Zahlbr.
1901
347
ICN
species
Caloplaca lactea

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Thallus pale pinkish, ochraceous or yellowish-white, thin, granular, friable, ± areolate in raised lumps 0.25 mm diam., prothallus pale, indistinct, K-, 1-4 cm diam. Apothecia sessile, applanate, rounded or with undulate margins, solitary or 2-5-confluent, 0.25-1.4 mm diam., disc bright red, matt or minutely granular, margins thin, shining, entire to subcrenulate, concolorous with disc. Epithecium dense red-brown 13-20 µm thick. Hymenium colourless c. 80 µm tall. Hypothecium pale yellowish or colourless c. 50 µm thick. Ascospores biseriate, oval-ellipsoid with rounded or slightly pointed ends, straight, 12-17 × 5-8.3 µm septum ¼ to ⅛ length of spore.
Thallus crustose, granular-furfuraceous or lacking, white, K-, often ± reduced to granules round the apothecia, saxicolous. Apothecia sessile, crowded, rounded to ± irregularly contorted through mutual pressure, 0.1-0.5 mm diam., disc ferrugineous brown-red, matt, concave to plane, rarely convex and immarginate with age, margins persistent, orange, entire, sometimes occluded with age. Ascospores biseriate, ellipsoid-oblong, apices rounded, straight, 2-locular, 13.6-17.0 × 6-8.3 µm, septum thin, c. 1/8 length of spore. Paraphyses moniliform at ends, end cell clavate.

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Blastenia albidoflavida Zahlbr.
Caloplaca lactea (A.Massal.) Zahlbr.
Blastenia colensoi Müll.Arg.
Caloplaca lactea (A.Massal.) Zahlbr.
Callopisma luteoeoalbum ß lacteum A.Massal.
Caloplaca lactea (A.Massal.) Zahlbr.
Caloplaca blastenioides Zahlbr.
Caloplaca lactea (A.Massal.) Zahlbr.
Caloplaca lactea (A.Massal.) Zahlbr.
Caloplaca lactea (A.Massal.) Zahlbr.
Caloplaca lactea (A.Massal.) Zahlbr.

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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Caloplaca lactea (A.Massal.) Zahlbr.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Caloplaca lactea (A.Massal.) Zahlbr.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

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a6be93c1-acd0-474f-9af6-e18ed1a48679
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 August 2008
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