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Lepraria arbuscula (Nyl.) Lendemer & B.P.Hodk.

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Lepraria arbuscula (Nyl.) Lendemer & B.P.Hodk., 105: 1005 (2013)
Lepraria arbuscula (Nyl.) Lendemer & B.P.Hodk.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Synonym, Leprocaulon arbuscula, regarded as non-endemic by Galloway (2007)

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(Nyl.) Lendemer & B.P.Hodk.
Nyl.
Lendemer & B.P.Hodk.
2013
1005
ICN
species
Lepraria arbuscula

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arbuscula

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Pseudopodetia in small, scattered groups or tufts, profusely dendroid-branched, distinctly dorsiventral, normally attached by a holdfast, or dying at base and then ± decumbent, flattened, branching dichotomous in one plane, soft and fragile, 1-2 cm tall and 0.4 mm thick towards base, upper branches much finer, to 0.15 mm thick, whitish, glaucous greyish-white or pale glaucous green, matt, tomentose or velvety, main branches glabrous, terminal branchlets very fine, coralloid. Phyllocladial granules on terminal branchlets, scarce to absent on ventral side, crowded, minute (to 0.1 mm diam.), softly pulverulent, often dissolving into smaller granules. Photobiont in irregular groups on surface of pseudopodetia and in powdery granules, loosely enveloped with hyphae. Chemistry: Two chemodemes are known, (i) Atranorin, protocetraric, grayanic and didymic acids and two unidentified compounds. (ii) Atranorin, protocetraric and physodalic acids. Several acid-deficient phases also occur in each chemodeme.

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New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District

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9 January 2017
7 June 2019
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