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Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.

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Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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(Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
Hook.f. & Taylor
Trevis.
1869
No. 75
ICN
species
Crocodia rubella

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rubella

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Thallus orbicular, ± rosette-shaped to spreading or straggling, 5-8(-12) cm diam., ± centrally attached, margins often free. Lobes linear, somewhat elongate, margins irregularly incised, ± ragged, granular-sorediate, not phyllidiate or isidiate. Upper surface bright lettuce-green when wet, greyish-green to buff-pink when dry becoming suffused reddish on storage, ± scabrid at margins, smooth, undulate to ± faveolate-impressed centrally, ± silky white-tomentose, ± sorediate. Soredia marginal in linear to sublinear soralia, or laminal in scattered, punctiform to confluent soralia, granular, yellow. Medulla yellow. Photobiont green. Lower surface pale yellow, ± evenly white, silky tomentose to margins. Pseudocyphellae yellow, prominent, numerous, flat, to 1.5 mm diam.Apothecia rather rare, pedicellate, disc dark brown or red-brown, concave to plane, somewhat undulate, matt, epruinose, margins eroded, granular-sorediate, exciple corrugate-scabrid, concolorous with thallus, ridges often yellow-sorediate. Ascospores brown, oblong-ellipsoid to obtusely fusiform, 3-septate, 28-30 × 10-13 µm. Chemistry: Pulvinic acid, pulvinic dilactone, calycin, and a complex mixture (c. 12) of lupane triterpenoids (Dr A.L. Wilkins pers. comm.).

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Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
Lobaria rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Kuntze
Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
Pseudocyphellaria rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Pseudocyphellaria rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) D.J.Galloway & P.James
Sticta rubella Hook.f. & Taylor
Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.

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Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Crocodia rubella (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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scientific name
Names_Plants
11 June 2010
24 October 2014
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