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Calicium abietinum Pers.

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Calicium abietinum Pers., Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung. 59 (1797)
Calicium abietinum Pers.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Cosmopolitan

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Pers.
Pers.
1797
59
ICN
Calicium abietinum Pers.
species
Calicium abietinum

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abietinum

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Calicium abietinum Pers.

Thallus immersed in substratum. Apothecia epruinose, stalk and capitulum shining black, or stalk with a slight brownish to olivaceous tinge. Upper part of excipulum often slightly translucent, pale. Apothecia 0.5-0.9 mm high, 5-10 times as high as width of stalk. All parts of apothecium I-. Capitulum lenticular or slightly bell-shaped, 0.21-0.28 mm diam. Excipulum formed as a continuation of stalk tissue, with isodiametric to slightly elongated and anticlinally arranged, heavily sclerotized cells. Hypothecium flat or slightly convex. Stalk 0.08-0.13 mm diam., in longitudinal section dark brown, consisting of densely intertwined, sclerotized hyphae. Outermost part of stalk ± hyaline, of pale hyphae and with a thin sheet of gelatinous, I- material at the surface. Asci cylindrical, 44-52 × 4-5 µm, spores uniseriate. Ascospores 12.5-15 × 5.5-7 µm, minutely warted, to minutely cracked-areolate, when old also with coarse cracks. Chemistry: No secondary substances known.

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Calicium abietinum Pers.
Calicium abietinum Pers.
Calicium abietinum Pers.
Calicium abietinum Pers.
Calicium abietinum Pers.
Calicium abietinum var. australe Js.Murray
Calicium abietinum Pers.

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1 January 2000
17 April 2020
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