Pyrenula thelomorpha Tuck.

Details

Name scientific

Pyrenula thelomorpha Tuck., Gen. Lich. 275 (1872)

Preferred name

Pyrenula thelomorpha Tuck.

Taxonomy reference

Aptroot, A. 2012: A world key to the species of Anthracothecium and Pyrenula. The Lichenologist 44: 5–53.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Aptroot, A. (2012)

Anthracothecium cellulosum (C.Knight) Müll.Hal., previously regarded as an NZ endemic, synonymised with pantropical Pyrenula thelomorpha Tuck.

Nomenclature

Original authors

Tuck.

Authors

Tuck.

Publication place

Tuckerman, E. 1872: Genera Lichenum: an arrangement of the North American lichens. Edwin Nelson, Amherst.

Year published

1872

Publication page

275

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pyrenula thelomorpha Tuck.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Pyrenula thelomorpha

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Pyrenulales

Family

Pyrenulaceae

Genus

Pyrenula

Species

thelomorpha

Synonyms

Descriptions

Galloway, D. J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Government Printer, Wellington.

Anthracothecium cellulosum (C.Knight) Müll.Arg.

Description

Thallus spreading in irregular patches, 1-2 cm diam., effuse or lacking, olive-green to pale brownish-grey, rather varnish-like in parts, without a prothallus, corticolous. Pseudothecia simple, black, solitary, scattered, ± immersed at first, becoming subglobose, shining, epruinose, minute, 0.05-0.2 mm diam. Ascospores 8 per ascus, oblong-ellipsoid, biseriate, muriform, colourless to pale yellow-brownish 35-52 × 8-13 µm.