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Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.

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Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr. (1861)
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Cosmopolitan

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(L.) Th.Fr.
L.
Th.Fr.
1861
51
ICN
species
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus

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chrysophthalmus

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Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.

Thallus foliose to fruticose, in small clumps, to 4 cm diam., and 0.5-2 cm tall, usually formed from single plants, corticolous. Lobes at first stellate-radiate, 0.5 mm wide, becoming erect, branched, rigid, dorsiventral, to 2.5 mm wide with spinous marginal fibrils, golden or orange-yellow above, especially at ends of lobes, matt or slightly shining, smooth or weakly longitudinally ridged, white or in part yellow below, longitudinally veined and wrinkled. Apothecia pedicellate, marginal or at ends of small laciniae, 1-6 mm wide, nearly plane, becoming convex with age, disc orange-yellow, margins thin, slightly elevated, with up to 150 concolorous fibrils, 0.5-2 mm long. Ascospores ellipsoid, 10-15 × 5-8 µm.

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Lichen chrysophthalmus L.
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.
Xanthoanaptychia chrysophthalma (L.) S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.

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Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.
Australia
South Australia
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.
Australia
Victoria
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus (L.) Th.Fr.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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be562ac9-6c74-4212-a7b3-89cebd34b748
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
22 November 2010
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