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Austromelanelixia calva (Essl.) Divakar, Crespo & Lumbsch

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Austromelanelixia calva (Essl.) Divakar, Crespo & Lumbsch, Fungal Diversity 84: 110 (2017)
Austromelanelixia calva (Essl.) Divakar, Crespo & Lumbsch

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Synonym, Melanelia calva, treated as endemic by Galloway (2007)

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(Essl.) Divakar, Crespo & Lumbsch
Essl.
Divakar, Crespo & Lumbsch
2017
110
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species
Austromelanelixia calva

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Thallus closely to moderately attached, 2-3 cm diam. Lobes 1-2 mm broad, flat, short and rounded to subelongate, contiguous to imbricate. Upper surface pale olive-tan to olive-brown, smooth to weakly pitted or wrinkled at apices and centrally, ± matt centrally, shining at apices, without isidia, pseudocyphellae or soredia. Lower surface tan to pale brown, smooth, slightly shining, moderately rhizinate. Rhizines pale or concolorous with lower surface, to 0.3 mm long. Apothecia numerous, sessile to short-pedicellate, concave, to 2 mm diam., margins entire, becoming obscurely pseudocyphellate. Ascospores broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, 12-15 × 9.5-11.5 µm. Chemistry: Cortex K-; medulla K+ faint violet or yellow, C+ rose, KC+ rose, Pd-. Gyrophoric acid and traces of three unidentified substances.

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Austromelanelixia calva (Essl.) Divakar, Crespo & Lumbsch
Austromelanelixia calva (Essl.) Divakar, Crespo & Lumbsch 2017
Austromelanelixia calva (Essl.) Divakar, Crespo & Lumbsch
Melanelia calva (Essl.) Essl.
Austromelanelixia calva (Essl.) Divakar, Crespo & Lumbsch
Melanelixia calva (Essl.) A.Crespo, Divakar & Elix
Austromelanelixia calva (Essl.) Divakar, Crespo & Lumbsch
Parmelia calva Essl.
Austromelanelixia calva (Essl.) Divakar, Crespo & Lumbsch

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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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11 September 2019
11 September 2019
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