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Megaloblastenia flavidoatra (Nyl.) Sipman

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Megaloblastenia flavidoatra (Nyl.) Sipman (1983)
Megaloblastenia flavidoatra (Nyl.) Sipman

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Australasian

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(Nyl.) Sipman
Nyl.
Sipman
1983
87
ICN
species
Megaloblastenia flavidoatra

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flavidoatra

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Megaloblastenia flavidoatra (Nyl.) Sipman

Thallus pale greenish-white or pale yellowish-green, rimose, to ± areolate-cracked, areolae convex, smooth or minutely verrucose appearing ± subsquamulose, matt or shining, in irregular patches, 1-4 cm diam., not delimited by a marginal prothallus, corticolous. Apothecia sessile, prominent, constricted at base, 0.2-1.4 mm diam., disc black, matt, finely roughened, epruinose, concave to plane, margins thick, persistent, concolorous with disc, entire. Epithecium olive-green-black, 9-40 µm thick. Hymenium colourless, 100-160 µm tall. Hypothecium olive-black, 110-140 µm thick. Paraphyses simple, septate, not much branched, capitate at apices. Ascospores large, 8 per ascus, thick-walled especially at apices, oval, rounded or slightly pointed at apices, straight, not constricted at septum, locules equal (30-)34-40 × 15-18(-23) µm, septum 9 µm thick. Chemistry: KC+ yellow, Pd-. Usnic acid and zeorin.

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Lecidea flavidoatra Nyl.
Megaloblastenia flavidoatra (Nyl.) Sipman
Megaloblastenia flavidoatra (Nyl.) Sipman
Megaloblastenia flavidoatra (Nyl.) Sipman
Megaloblastenia flavidoatra (Nyl.) Sipman
Megaloblastenia flavidoatra (Nyl.) Sipman
Megaloblastenia flavidoatra (Nyl.) Sipman
Patellaria flavidoatra (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
Megaloblastenia flavidoatra (Nyl.) Sipman

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Megaloblastenia flavidoatra (Nyl.) Sipman
New Zealand
Nelson Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
10 April 2024
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