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Lecidea lapicida (Ach.) Ach.

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Lecidea lapicida (Ach.) Ach., Methodus (Acharius) 37 (1803)
Lecidea lapicida (Ach.) Ach.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Cosmopolitan

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(Ach.) Ach.
Ach.
Ach.
1803
37
ICN
species
Lecidea lapicida

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lapicida

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Thallus in small, confluent patches 1-3 cm diam., greyish-white or blue-grey or greenish-grey on a thick, black prothallus, very thin, minutely and regularly areolate-cracked, areolae angular, ± flat, bounded by a narrow, black, marginal prothallus. Apothecia ± solitary to 1-4 confluent, immersed to adnate, sunk in plane of thallus, not raised above thallus surface, rounded or cracked-deformed, disc black, matt, epruinose, 0.5-1.0 mm diam., margins very narrow, entire, black, persistent. Epithecium green-black, 8-13 µm thick. Hymenium colourless, 40-60 µm tall. Hypothecium thick, brown-black. Ascospores oblong with rounded apices, 8-12 × 3-5.1 µm.

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Lecidea dunedina Zahlbr.
Lecidea lapicida (Ach.) Ach.
Lecidea lapicida (Ach.) Ach.
Lecidea lapicida (Ach.) Ach.
Lecidea lapicida (Ach.) Ach.
Lecidea lapicida (Ach.) Ach.
Lecidea vexillaris Zahlbr.
Lecidea lapicida (Ach.) Ach.

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Lecidea lapicida (Ach.) Ach.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Lecidea lapicida (Ach.) Ach.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
30 July 2010
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