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Cladonia enantia Nyl.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
Political Region
Australasian

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Nyl.
Nyl.
1888
1
ICN
Cladonia enantia Nyl.
species
Cladonia enantia

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enantia

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Cladonia enantia Nyl.

Primary squamules persistent, large, 2-5(-10) mm long and 1-5 mm wide, cuneate to sublinear, margins crenate-ragged, sinuate, irregularly laciniate-pectinate, flat or convex, ascending, aggregated or crowded-caespitose, upper surface whitish-glaucescent or pale olive-yellowish-glaucescent. Lower surface white, brown-black at base, esorediate, or margins and lower surface farinose-sorediate. Podetia arising from margins and upper surface of primary squamules, 3-12(-17) mm tall, 0.4-0.5 mm diam., subcylindrical or angular, without cups, terminated by apothecia, simple or fastigiate-branched, branches suberect, laterally fissured, fissures striate, often aggregated, erect, corticate, not, or rarely squamulose, axils open or closed. Cortex areolate-verrucose, areolae continuous or dispersed, 0.1-0.5 mm wide, esorediate, opaque, impellucid, whitish-glaucuescent. Apothecia at tips of podetia, often supported on short, cartilaginous stalks, rarely at margins of squamules 0.8-4.0 mm diam., solitary, entire or lobate-perforate, subpeltate, at first plane and marginate, soon becoming convex, glomerulate and immarginate, pale to dark brown, red-brown or brown-black. Chemistry: Cortex K+ faint yellow, C-, KC-, Pd+ red. Fumarprotocetraric, succinprotocetraric and protocetraric acids and atranorin (tr.).

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Cladonia enantia Nyl.
Cladonia enantia Nyl.
Cladonia enantia Nyl.
Cladonia enantia Nyl.
Cladonia enantia Nyl.
Cladonia enantia f. dilatata Vain.
Cladonia enantia Nyl.

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Cladonia enantia Nyl.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Cladonia enantia Nyl.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Cladonia enantia Nyl.
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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editorial
Cladonia enantia Nyl.was pulbished in Rev. Cladon. Zwackh. 6 months before Lich. Nov. Zel. (1988)

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f91050da-885d-4550-a05d-7fe217de1a72
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
10 December 2021
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