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Pertusaria theochroa Kremp.

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Pertusaria theochroa Kremp., Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 26: 452 (1876)
Pertusaria theochroa Kremp.

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New Zealand
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Kremp.
Kremp.
1876
452
ICN
Pertusaria theochroa Kremp.
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Pertusaria theochroa

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theochroa

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Thallus grey-white or pale glaucous, wrinkled-plicate to verrucose, marigns shallowly nodular-papillate to irregularly wrinkled, with a thin, black prothallus. Fertile verrucae common, crowded, rounded to irregular, 1-2.5 mm diam., ± hemispherical, apices flattened, surface puckered or irregularly plicate-rugose. Apothecia immersed, 1-3 per verruca, ostioles black, depressed 0.01-0.1 mm wide, disc blackish with a white pruina. Asci 8-spored. Ascospores biseriate, oval-ellipsoid with rounded, flattened or slightly pointed ends, contents granular at first then hyaline, 90-113 × 30.4-39.2 µm, wall 4-7(-17) µm thick. Chemistry: Unidentified compound (?xanthone) charring UV+ citrine yellow.

Pertusaria theochroa Kremp.

Thallus pale yellowish to grey-white with fertile verrucae yellowish and remainder of thallus thin, greyish indistinct. Fertile verrucae scattered 0.1-0.3 mm diam., ± hemispherical to conical, flattened, waxy at apex. Apothecia immersed 1-3 per verruca, ostioles minute, blackened, disc black, innate. Asci 8-spored. Ascospores biseriate, broadly ellipsoid to oval, contents oily-granular 87-113 × 35-40 µm, wall thickened at apices, 6-17 µm thick. Chemistry: Unidentified compound (?xanthone) charring UV+ citrine yellow.

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Pertusaria theochroa Kremp.
Pertusaria theochroa Kremp.
Pertusaria theochroa Kremp.
Pertusaria theochroa Kremp.
Pertusaria theochroa Kremp.

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1 January 2000
10 May 2010
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