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Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Ach.

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Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Ach., Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 15: 101 (1794)
Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Ach.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Comopolitan

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(L.) Ach.
L.
Ach.
1794
101
ICN
species
Umbilicaria vellea

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vellea

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Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Ach.

Thallus 6-15 cm diam., monophyllous, rigid to membranaceous, orbicular, umbo moderately elevated or absent. Upper surface undulate, ± folded, smooth to scabrid, areolate-papillate, often cracked or black-scarred, perforate to torn, with rhizines from lower surface appearing as dark clumps, margins entire to ± deeply incised, crenate, surface dull, creamish-buff to pale pinkish-grey or blackish with occasional, peripheral, reddish stains. Lower surface black, occasionally brownish at margins, coarsely papillate-rhizinate. Rhizines developed in a ± dense felt over whole lower surface, short, thick, black. Apothecia rare, 1-3 mm diam., peripheral or scattered near umbo, sessile, circular, disc black with well-developed gyrae, convex. Ascospores simple, colourless, 8-13 × 7-10 µm.

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Lichen velleus L.
Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Ach.
Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Ach.
Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Hoffm.
Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Ach.
Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Ach.

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Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Ach.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Ach.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Ach.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Ach.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Umbilicaria vellea (L.) Ach.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
18 May 2020
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