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Hypotrachyna laevigata (Sm.) Hale

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Hypotrachyna laevigata (Sm.) Hale, Smithson. Contr. Bot. 25: 44 (1975)
Hypotrachyna laevigata (Sm.) Hale

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Cosmopolitan

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(Sm.) Hale
Sm.
Hale
1975
44
ICN
species
Hypotrachyna laevigata

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laevigata

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Hypotrachyna laevigata (Sm.) Hale

Thallus rather loosely attached, to 8 cm diam., corticolous. Lobes dichotomously branched, margins entire, apices truncate, axils deeply sinuous. Upper surface smooth, matt, pale greenish-grey or whitish, faintly maculate (X 10 lens), sorediate, without isidia. Soredia in terminal or subterminal, capitate soralia, grey or blackened, granular. Lower surface black, rhizinate to margins. Rhizines black, dichotomously to squarosely branched, often projecting beyond margins. Apothecia not seen. Chemistry: Cortex K+ yellow; medulla K-, C+ orange KC+ orange-pink, Pd-. Atranorin, barbatic, 4-O-methylbarbatic (tr.), obtusatic (tr.), and norobtusatic (tr.) acids.

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Hypotrachyna laevigata (Sm.) Hale
Hypotrachyna laevigata (Sm.) Hale
Hypotrachyna laevigata (Sm.) Hale
Hypotrachyna laevigata (Sm.) Hale
Hypotrachyna laevigata (Sm.) Hale
Lichen laevigatus Sm.
Hypotrachyna laevigata (Sm.) Hale

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Hypotrachyna laevigata (Sm.) Hale
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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1 January 2000
26 August 2009
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