Lambiella psephota (Tuck.) Hertel

Details

Name scientific

Lambiella psephota (Tuck.) Hertel (1984)

Preferred name

Lambiella psephota (Tuck.) Hertel

Taxonomy reference

Kantvilas, G. 2022: The genus Lambiella Hertel (lichenised fungi) in Tasmania: new combinations, new species and a revised key. PhytoKeys 549(2): 209–2018.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Kantvilas, G. (2022)

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Hertel

Original authors

Tuck.

Authors

(Tuck.) Hertel

Publication place

Hertel, H. 1984: Über saxicole, lecideoide Flechten der Subantarktis. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 79: 399–499.

Year published

1984

Publication page

460

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lecidea psephota Tuck.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Lambiella psephota

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Agyriales

Family

Trapeliaceae

Genus

Lambiella

Species

psephota

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Lecidea psephota Tuck.

Description

Thallus olive or mottled greyish-fawn, K+ yellow or red, of small, bullate squamules, scattered or ± contiguous, convex to flattened, minute. Apothecia plane or subconvex-undulate, densely carbonaceous-black, matt, wrinkled or minutely roughened, margins persistent, black, raised, entire to crenulate, 0.1-0.8 mm diam. Epithecium green-black (purple in K), 21-30 µm thick. Hymenium colourless 60-80 µm tall. Hypothecium brown-black. Ascospores oval ellipsoid, 12.5-18 × 6-8.5 µm.