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Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway

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Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway in Galloway, New Zealand J. Bot. 21: 1983 (1983)
Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway

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New Zealand
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(Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway
Hillmann
P.James & D.J.Galloway
1983
1983
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species
Menegazzia inflata

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inflata

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Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway

Thallus irregularly rosette-forming to ± straggling, decumbent, 8-12(-20) cm diam., loosely attached, terricolous or amongst basal branches of subalpine shrubs or tussocks. Lobes 1-5 cm long, 4-8 mm wide, tubular-inflated, hollow, ± terete, rarely flattened, sometimes ± erect, more usually decumbent, sparsely dichotomously branched, without adventitious lobules, upper surface smooth, whitish or spotted black, with ± extensive blackened patches, apices brownish, matt. Perforations large 1-2.5 mm diam., rather sparse, not sorediate. Lower surface black or white-maculate, wrinkled, eperforate. Apothecia rare, pedicellate, cupuliform, 0.5-5 mm diam., disc shining, red-brown, epruinose, concave to plane to convex-deformed, exciple shining, wrinkled-faveolate, margins crenate-striate, concolorous with thallus. Ascospores 2 per ascus, 30-33(-45) × 18-20 µm, wall 3 µm thick. Chemistry: Stictic, constictic, norstictic (tr.) and menegazziaic acids and an accessory substance; medulla K+ yellow → orange, C-, KC+ orange, Pd+ orange.

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Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway
Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway
Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway
Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway
Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway
Parmelia inflata Hillmann
Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway

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Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Menegazzia inflata (Hillmann) P.James & D.J.Galloway
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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c6a8fe93-8027-45e9-8f77-0b8285824af7
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1 January 2000
7 April 2011
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