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Cladonia confusa R.Sant.

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Cladonia confusa R.Sant., Ark. Bot. 30A: 13 (1942)
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Palaeotropical

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R.Sant.
R.Sant.
1942
13
ICN
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.
species
Cladonia confusa

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confusa

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Primary thallus evanescent. Podetia in mats or tufts often spreading in dense swards, 2-15 cm tall, branching loose to dense, isotomic, mainly trichotomous, irregular or forming compact rounded heads, branches slender 0.3-0.4 mm diam., internodes 5 mm long, axils distinctly open with star-like diverging branchlets. Cortex cottony with minute algal glomerules, greenish-yellow to pale yellow, sometimes bright yellow, never brownish at apices. Chemistry: Cortex K-, KC+ yellow, Pd-. Perlatolic, anziaic and usnic acids.

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Cladina leptoclada (Abbayes) D.J.Galloway
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.
Cladonia leptoclada Abbayes
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.

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New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
New Zealand
Southland Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Cladonia confusa R.Sant.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
19 July 2011
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