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Peltigera spuria (Ach.) DC.

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Peltigera spuria (Ach.) DC. (1805)

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(Ach.) DC.
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1805
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Peltigera spuria

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spuria

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Peltigera spuria (Ach.) DC.

Thallus orbicular, small, often cochleate, 0.5-2.0(-3) cm diam. Lobes ascending, margins entire, often incurled. Upper surface thick, coriaceous, brownish-grey or buff or pale greyish-green, tomentose, ± sorediate when young. Soredia grey, coarse, granular, in ± marginal soralia or in small, rounded, erose spots or patches on upper surface, disappearing in older, usually fertile specimens. Lower surface pale whitish or brownish-pink, arachnoid, veins pale buff, raised, 0.5-1.5 mm wide. Rhizines pale buff, simple to fasciculate, 2.5 mm long, mainly central. Apothecia on ascending, revolute lobes, 2-4 mm diam., rounded to irregular-elongate, disc red-brown to brown-black, epruinose, margins pale, buff, crenulate-corrugate. Ascospores elongate-fusiform, 5-7-septate 55-70 × 3-4 µm. Chemistry: TLC nil.

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Peltigera spuria (Ach.) DC.
Peltigera spuria (Ach.) DC.

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1 January 2000
6 November 2017
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