Chiodecton Ach.
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Biostatus
Nomenclature
Ach.
Ach.
1814
ICN
genus
Chiodecton
Classification
Subordinates
- Chiodecton acarosporoides
- Chiodecton colensoi
- Chiodecton conchyliatum
- Chiodecton gelatinosum
- Chiodecton inconspicuum
- Chiodecton inconspicuum
- Chiodecton macquariense
- Chiodecton moniliatum
- Chiodecton montanum
- Chiodecton sinuosum
- Chiodecton subdiscordans
- Chiodecton subgelatinosum
- Chiodecton submoniliforme
- Chiodecton subseriale
Descriptions
Chiodecton Ach.
Thallus crustose, uniform, thin or thick, continuous or ± areolate-cracked, smooth, or granular-roughened, matt to somewhat pulverulent, in irregular, spreading patches, delimited by a thin, black prothallus, often forming confluent mosaics on bark. Photobiont green, , cells minute, oblong-ellipsoid, in filaments. Apothecia innate, compound, in well-developed stromata in raised thalline verrucae, verrucae concolorous with thallus or paler, round to irregular, polycarpic, discs flat or subconcave, black or red-brown, matt, epruinose. Hypothecium brown or blackish-brown. Asci bitunicate, cylindrical-clavate, 8-spored. Paraphyses numerous, branched or netted. Ascospores fusiform-acicular, flexuose, 3-5-septate, normally 3-septate, colourless.
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1 January 2000
16 March 2009