Calicium Pers.
Details
Calicium Pers., Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 7: 20 (1794)
Calicium Pers.
Biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Cosmopolitan genus with some 25 species known.
Nomenclature
Pers.
Pers.
1794
20
ICN
Calicium Pers.
genus
Calicium
Classification
Subordinates
- Calicium abietinum
- Calicium adspersum
- Calicium albonigrum
- Calicium brunneolum
- Calicium carthusiae
- Calicium chlorellum
- Calicium chlorosporum
- Calicium chrysocephalum
- Calicium claviculare
- Calicium cryptocroceum
- Calicium curtisii
- Calicium debile
- Calicium ferrugineum
- Calicium glaucellum
- Calicium hyperelloides
- Calicium lenticulare
- Calicium lignicola
- Calicium niveum
- Calicium piperatum
- Calicium populneum
- Calicium pusiola
- Calicium robustellum
- Calicium salicinum
- Calicium saxatile
- Calicium stemoneum
- Calicium subnigricans
- Calicium subquercinum
- Calicium subtile
- Calicium trabinellum
- Calicium trachelinum
- Calicium trichiale
- Calicium tricolor
- Calicium victoriae
- Calicium victorianum
- Calicium viride
- Calicium viridireagens
- Calicium xylonellum
Descriptions
Calicium Pers.
Thallus crustaceous, epi- or endosubstratic. When episubstratic the thallus is verrucose-granular, grey, greenish-grey, pale yellowish-green or dark green. Photobiont: . Apothecia well-stalked. Stalk tissue of strongly sclerotized, blackish-brown to greenish-brown hyphae. Mazaedium well-developed. Asci dissolved at early stages, cylindrical-clavate. Ascospores 1-septate, when mature, dark brown with thick walls. Spore wall often with distinctive ornamentation. Pycnidia sessile or slightly immersed, simple, spherical and with simple ostiole. Conidia broadly ellipsoid to short cylindrical, hyaline, simple. Chemistry: Containing β-orcinol depsides and depsidones, xanthones and tetronic acid derivatives.
Taxonomic concepts
Notes
Metadata
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
20 April 2020