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Pseudocyphellaria flavicans sensu Galloway

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Pseudocyphellaria flavicans sensu Galloway

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Galloway
Galloway
1985
443
invalidly published, misapplication
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Pseudocyphellaria flavicans

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flavicans

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Pseudocyphellaria flavicans sensu Galloway

Thallus orbicular to spreading, rather irregular, 5-10(-20) cm diam., ± closely attached to loosely straggling. Lobes broad, rounded, to rather ragged, imbricate centrally, contiguous to subimbricate at apices, margins crisped, variously notched or incised, isidiate. Upper surface bright green to yellow green when wet, pale yellowish-grey when dry, undulate, uneven, slightly and shallowly faveolate, shining, smooth, ± isidiate. Isidia flattened, coralloid-branched, marginal at first, then laminal, often dense. Medulla yellow. Photobiont green. Lower surface pale yellowish or creamish at margins, glabrous or minutely pubescent, darker yellow to brownish centrally. Pseudocyphellae yellow. Apothecia sparse to absent, subpedicellate, disc brown-black, matt, smooth, to 5 mm diam., concave to plane, margins pale or whitish, translucent when wet, crenulate-dentate, thalline exciple massive, white, corrugate-verrucose, obscuring disc when young, often ± short white-tomentose. Ascospores colourless, fusiform, 1-3-septate, 24-30 × 5-7 µm. Chemistry: Pulvinic acid, pulvinic dilactone, calycin, 3β,22α,-diacetoxystictane (±), 2α,3β,22α, triacetoxystictane, 2α,3β-diacetoxystictane-22-one (±), 2α,3β-diacetoxys-tictan-22-ol (±), 3β-acetoxystictane-22-ol (±), stictane-3 β,22α,-diol (±),2α -acetoxystictane-3β,22α,-diol, 3β-acetoxystictane-2α,22α,-diol, stictane-2β,3β,22α-triol (±) [Chin et al., J. chem. Soc. Perkin 1: 1437-1446 (1973)].

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Pseudocyphellaria flavicans sensu Galloway
Pseudocyphellaria flavicans
Pseudocyphellaria flavicans sensu Galloway
Pseudocyphellaria flavicans sensu D.J. Galloway

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Pseudocyphellaria flavicans sensu Galloway
Fiji
Pseudocyphellaria flavicans sensu Galloway
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Pseudocyphellaria flavicans sensu Galloway
New Zealand
Nelson Land District

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editorial
In his 2007 Flora, D.J. Galloway referred to his 1985 description, as Pseudocyphellaria flavicans, for Pseudocyphellaria pickeringii; therefore the current name for Galloway's misapplication in 1985, is Podostictina pickeringii.

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1 January 2000
26 February 2024
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