Flavoplaca citrina (Hoﬀm.) Arup, Frödén & Søchting

Details

Name scientific

Flavoplaca citrina (Hoﬀm.) Arup, Frödén & Søchting, Nordic. J. Bot. 31: 44 (2013)

Preferred name

Flavoplaca citrina (Hoﬀm.) Arup, Frödén & Søchting

Taxonomy reference

Arup, U.; Søchting, U.; Frödén, P. 2013: A new taxonomy of the family Teloschistaceae. Nordic Journal of Botany 31: 16–83.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Synonym, Caloplaca citrina was treated as Wild, non-endemic with a cosmopolitan distribution by GAlloway (2007).

Nomenclature

Authors

(Hoﬀm.) Arup, Frödén & Søchting

Original authors

Hoﬀm.

Combination authors

Arup, Frödén & Søchting

Publication place

Arup, U.; Søchting, U.; Frödén, P. 2013: A new taxonomy of the family Teloschistaceae. Nordic Journal of Botany 31: 16–83.

Year published

2013

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Verrucaria citrina Hoffm.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Flavoplaca citrina

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Teloschistales

Family

Teloschistaceae

Genus

Flavoplaca

Species

citrina

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Caloplaca citrina (Hoffm.) Th.Fr.

Description

Thallus crustose, effuse, coarsely granular-sorediate in a ± diffract-areolate crust, or ± thinly scattered, yellow to pale lemon yellow or green-yellow, K+ purple, saxicolous. Apothecia rather rare, 0.2-0.6 mm diam., disc plane, matt, orange, thalline margin granular, concolorous with thallus, occluded with age. Ascospores biseriate, ellipsoid with rounded ends, straight, 10-15 × 4.5-8 µm, septum c. ⅓ length of spore. Chemistry: Emodin, parietin, xanthorin, fallacinal.