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Placynthium (Ach.) Gray

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Present
New Zealand
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Galloway, D.J. (2007)
25 species worldwide; 2 in NZ

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Gray
Ach.
(Ach.) Gray
1821
ICN
Placynthium nigrum (Huds.) Gray
genus
Placynthium

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Fungi
Ascomycota
Ascomycetes
Peltigerales
Placynthiaceae
Placynthium

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Galloway, D. J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Government Printer, Wellington.

Placynthium (Ach.) Gray

Thallus rosette-shaped, grey, olive or blackish, lobate, some species with a marginal prothallus, saxicolous or terricolous or muscicolous, rarely corticolous. Lobes squamulose or stellate-radiating, flattened or filiform, with or without isidia. Photobiont blue-green, Rivulariaceae or Scytonemaceae. Lower surface and rhizines bluish-green or pale. Apothecia hemiangiocarpic, lecideine with proper or thalline margin. Asci cylindrical with apically thickened wall, 8-spored. Ascospores colourless, 2-, 3- or 4-celled, ellipsoid or fusiform.

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Placynthium (Ach.) Gray
Placynthium (Ach.) Gray
Galloway, D. J. (1985)
Placynthium (Ach.) Gray
Placynthium (Ach.) Gray
Galloway, D.J. (2007)
Placynthium (Ach.) Gray

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Placynthium (Ach.) Gray
New Zealand
Otago Land District
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
26 March 2013
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