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Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.

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Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach., Lichenogr. Universalis 608 (1810)
Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Ramalina pollinaria is known from only two sites in New Zealand.

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(Westr.) Ach.
Westr.
Ach.
1810
608
ICN
species
Ramalina pollinaria

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pollinaria

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Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.

Thallus erect, caespitose-pulvinate to shrubby, 2-3(-6) cm tall, saxicolous and corticolous. Branches pale greenish-yellow or whitish-green, often numerous, flattened or in part terete especially near apices, much branched and dissected, with numerous small lateral nodular proliferations, or more flattened, palmate, undulate with deeply notched or incised margins, surface smooth, glossy, cartilaginous, subfaveolate in wider branches, sorediate. Soralia mainly laminal, subterminal or terminal, irregularly spreading, often appearing sublabriform at apices, soredia granular, yellow-white or greenish rather coarse. Apothecia not seen. Chemistry: ?Divaricatic acid.

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Lichen pollinarius Westr.
Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.
Lichen pollinarius Westr.
Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.
Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.
Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.
Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.
Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.
Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.
Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.
Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.

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Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Ramalina pollinaria (Westr.) Ach.
New Zealand
Otago Land District

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ca2ef607-90c6-4dc5-a04e-0479cab6914f
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
12 July 2010
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