Xanthopsoroma soccatum (R.Br. ex Cromb.) Elvebakk
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Xanthopsoroma soccatum (R.Br. ex Cromb.) Elvebakk, Lichenologist 42: 577 (2010)
Xanthopsoroma soccatum (R.Br. ex Cromb.) Elvebakk
Biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Nomenclature
(R.Br. ex Cromb.) Elvebakk
Cromb.
Elvebakk
2010
577
ICN
species
Xanthopsoroma soccatum
Classification
Synonyms
Descriptions
Thallus small, squamulose, often widely scattered, on a prominent black, thin, continuous, fibrous or byssoid prothallus, 3-5(-10) cm diam. Squamules small, ± discrete, 0.1-1.0 mm diam., round to irregular, plane to subconvex, rarely forming a continuous crust, ± consistently sorediate, especially at centre, esorediate near margins, sometimes forming a diffract-areolate, sorediate crust centrally, some squamules ascending, white tomentose below. Upper surface pale greenish or yellowish-white, smooth, waxy or matt, commonly with fine, silky, bristling crystals (×10 lens). Soredia white, or yellowish, granular, surrounded by a halo of white, silky crystals. Cephalodia common, scattered, between squamules on prothallus, never developing on squamules, simple, globose to glomerulate, smooth, purplish-brown. Apothecia not common, scattered, sessile or subpedicellate, 0.1-1.2 mm diam., round to irregular, disc dark red- brown to blackish, matt, epruinose, not gyrose-etched, sometimes ± sorediate, margins crenulate-striate, waxy, occasionally granular-sorediate, thalline exciple wrinkled-striate, ± sorediate. Ascospores 15-17 × 11 µm.
Taxonomic concepts
Psoroma soccatum R.Br. ex Cromb.
Xanthopsoroma soccatum (R.Br. ex Cromb.) Elvebakk
Psoroma soccatum R.Br. ex Cromb.
Xanthopsoroma soccatum (R.Br. ex Cromb.) Elvebakk
Xanthopsoroma soccatum (R.Br. ex Cromb.) Elvebakk
Xanthopsoroma soccatum (R.Br. ex Cromb.) Elvebakk
Collections
Metadata
c84ab4b5-e63d-4f49-9181-27d9e56d8d0d
scientific name
Names_Plants
2 June 2011