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Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin

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Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin, Pl. Syst. Evol. 187: 235 (1993)
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Austral

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(Laurer) Wedin
Laurer
Wedin
1993
235
ICN
species
Leifidium tenerum

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tenerum

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Thallus corticolous or terricolous rarely, on mossy rocks, occurring as small to large cushions, occasionally forming extensive patches on soil, to 1 m wide, morphology very variable, of elongate, fertile erect extended primary branches with shorter, thinner, sterile ± richly branched almost corymbose secondary branches. Primary branches terete, elongate, sparsely to frequently branched, to 7 cm tall, 0.6-1.2 mm wide, surface shining, pale white or greenish-white to fawn or yellowish-brown, cortex papery, thin, 30-45 µm covered by a thin (2-3 µm) epicortex. Algal layer 15-25 µm thick, continuous beneath cortex. Medulla of thick-walled hyphae 6-9 µm diam., partially fused and forming a dense central strand. Apothecia terminal 0.5-1.5 mm diam., subglobose to globose, mazaedium apical, exposed by irregular apical rupture of enclosing receptacle, at maturity partially surrounded by receptacle or free and prominent. Asci 40-65 × 5-8 µm. Ascospores spherical hyaline to greyish, 6.5-10 µm. Chemistry: K-, C-, KC-, Pd-. Sphaerophorin.

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Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
Sphaerophoron australe Hook.f. & Taylor
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
Sphaerophorus curtus Hook.f. & Taylor
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
Sphaerophorus globosus var. curtus (Hook.f. & Taylor) Zahlbr.
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
Sphaerophorus taylori C.W.Dodge
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
Sphaerophorus tener Laurer
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
Sphaerophorus tener f. curtus (Hook.f. & Taylor) M.Satô
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
Sphaerophorus tener var. curtus (Hook.f. & Taylor) Taylor & Hook.f.
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin

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Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
Australia
Macquarie Island
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Leifidium tenerum (Laurer) Wedin
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
28 September 2010
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