Hypogymnia (Nyl.) Nyl.
Details
Hypogymnia (Nyl.) Nyl. (1896)
Hypogymnia (Nyl.) Nyl.
Biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
c. 86 species; 8 from New Zealand
Nomenclature
(Nyl.) Nyl.
Nyl.
Nyl.
1896
ICN
genus
Hypogymnia
Classification
Subordinates
Associations
Descriptions
Hypogymnia (Nyl.) Nyl.
Thallus foliose, lobate, heteromerous, attached by adhesive discs below, or rarely by the whole lower cortex. Lobes inflated, ± solid in some species, without perforations in the upper surface, with or without soredia, without isidia or pseudocyphellae. Medulla white, loose, arachnoid. Lower surface black, corticate, wrinkled, thin, often fissured or perforate, without rhizines. Photobiont green, . Apothecia lecanorine, sessile or subpedicellate, disc concave to plane, rarely perforate, red-brown to yellowish-brown, epruinose. Ascospores simple, colourless, 8 per ascus. Pycnidia common in fertile species, minute, black, punctiform, immersed in upper surface. Conidia cylindrical, straight.
Taxonomic concepts
Collections
Metadata
c4ceabb2-49a8-4cf0-a7ea-a368da677406
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
25 August 2009