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Phlyctis uncinata Stirt.

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Phlyctis uncinata Stirt., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 464 (1875)
Phlyctis uncinata Stirt.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
? Palaeotropical

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Stirt.
Stirt.
1875
464
ICN
Phlyctis uncinata Stirt.
species
Phlyctis uncinata

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uncinata

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Thallus orbicular to spreading, in patches to 5(-10) cm diam. Upper surface minutely granular-uneven ± arachnoid or "frosted" often minutely verruculose, occasionally areolate-cracked, whitish to pale greenish-grey or glaucous-grey. Apothecia sparse to frequent, 0.1-0.5 mm diam., solitary, or scattered, to 4-5 together in a line, often in a declivity in bark or 2-4(-7) together in a pseudostroma, round to irregular, innate, disc concave to plane, red or red-brown, rarely black, translucent, densely covered with a thick, white granular pruina, margins white or pale pinkish, slightly raised, entire to dentate-irregular, ± puckered, split or fissured or ± gyalectiform, or eroded to a ± translucent, thin, red rim. Ascopores fusiform, slightly curved (5-)7-13-septate, (45-)54-90(-100) × 5-10 µm. Chemistry: Cortex K+ yellow → red. Norstictic acid.

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Phlyctella pityrodes Kremp.
Phlyctis uncinata Stirt.
Phlyctella uncinata (Stirt.) Müll.Arg.
Phlyctis uncinata Stirt.
Phlyctis neozelandica Nyl.
Phlyctis uncinata Stirt.
Phlyctis uncinata Stirt.
Phlyctis uncinata Stirt.

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Phlyctis uncinata Stirt.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District

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b39ab134-e12e-4cf6-8998-e177981e2f71
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1 January 2000
14 May 2010
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