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Pertusaria superba Zahlbr.

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Pertusaria superba Zahlbr., Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Kl., Denkschr. 104: 332 (1941)

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Zahlbr.
Zahlbr.
1941
332
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Pertusaria superba Zahlbr.
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Pertusaria superba

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superba

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Pertusaria superba Zahlbr.

Thallus grey-white, pale glaucous grey or fawn-grey, matt, uniform, areolate-cracked or with parallel striations or deep or narrow cracks (rather like tree bark), 2-12 cm diam., margins indeterminate, effuse. Fertile verrucae scattered, 0.5-5 mm diam., ± hemispherical deformed, constricted at base, round to irregular. Apothecia 1-5(-10) per verruca, immersed, ostioles black, apex of verruca surrounding ostiole red-brown, ± translucent margins grey-white or concolorous with thallus. Asci 8-spored. Ascospores uniseriate, oval-ellipsoid, ends pointed, (43.5-)52-69.5 × 25-30 µm, walls 3-13 µm thick, thickest at apices. Chemistry: TLC-2 unidentified compounds (yellow) lower one violet, 2 xanthones UV+ orange (charring UV++ citrine yellow).

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Pertusaria superba Zahlbr.
Pertusaria superba Zahlbr.
Pertusaria superba Zahlbr.
Pertusaria superba Zahlbr.

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Pertusaria superba Zahlbr.
New Zealand
Otago Land District

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1 January 2000
10 May 2010
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