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Blastenia A.Massal.

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Blastenia A.Massal., Flora 35: 573 (1852)
Blastenia A.Massal.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Mainly Northern Hemisphere.

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A.Massal.
A.Massal.
1852
573
ICN
Blastenia A.Massal.
genus
Blastenia

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Blastenia

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Blastenia A.Massal.

Thallus crustose, uniform, continuous, powdery, granular or cracked, attached to substrate by medullary hyphae or those of prothallus, homoiomerous or heteromerous, ecorticate. Photobiont green,. Apothecia rounded, lecideine, without a thalline margin, immersed or sessile, pruinose or not, K+ purple (anthraquinones). Hypothecium pale yellowish to colourless. Paraphyses distinct, septate, capitate, slightly swollen and often granular pigmented at apices, septate. Ascospores colourless, ellipsoid, ovoid or elongate, with rounded or slightly pointed ends, polaribilocular, 4-16 per ascus. Pycnidia immersed, spherical. Conidia short, cylindrical, straight, rarely curved.

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Blastenia A.Massal.
Blastenia A.Massal.
Blastenia A.Massal.
Blastenia A.Massal.
Blastenia A.Massal.

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Blastenia A.Massal.
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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c9dbfbc7-7d42-40ae-89b0-5e6c1411afb5
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
4 June 2015
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