Pyrenula quassiicola (Fée) Fée

Details

Name scientific

Pyrenula quassiicola (Fée) Fée, Essai Crypt. Écorc., Suppl 79 (1837)

Preferred name

Pyrenula quassiicola (Fée) Fée

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)

Nomenclature

Authors

(Fée) Fée

Original authors

Fée

Combination authors

Fée

Publication place

Fée, A.L.A. 1837: Essai sur les Cryptogames des Écorces Exotiques Officinales, Supplément et Revision. Firmin Didot, Paris.

Year published

1837

Publication page

Orthography

Pyrenula quassiaecola

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Verrucaria quassiicola Fée

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Pyrenula quassiicola

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Pyrenulales

Family

Pyrenulaceae

Genus

Pyrenula

Species

quassiicola

Synonyms

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Corynocarpus laevigatus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

CHR (1 records from New Zealand.)

has host

Meryta J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

CHR (1 records from New Zealand.)

Descriptions

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

Pyrenula crassescens (Stirt.) Müll.Arg.

Description

Thallus corticate, continuous, olive-green to yellowish-green or buff, matt or shining, dimpled, minutely plicate in parts, rarely irregularly cracked. Perithecia immersed, scattered, solitary, visible as hemispherical dimples entirely covered by cortex. Ostiole pale, apical, punctiform. Perithecial cavity 0.2-1.0 mm wide, involucrellum 20-60 µm thick, carbonised. Ascospores ovoid to broadly ellipsoid with pointed ends, ± lemon-shaped, 4-locular, the central two locules largest, rounded, (20-)22.1-26 × 10.2-12(-14) µm. Chemistry: Yellow pigment UV+ quench.

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

Pyrenula homalisma (C.Knight) D.J.Galloway

Description

Thallus epiphloeodal, dark olivaceous, brown or olive-green, smooth, matt, or slightly shining, irregularly cracked, in darkish bands or patches, 2-8 cm diam., not delimited at margins. Perithecia numerous, prominent, scattered, emergent, flat, scarcely raised above surface, discrete to 4-6-confluent, ± flattened-applanate, subconical centrally, rarely or never subglobose, round to irregular, 0.5-2.5 mm diam., black, matt. Ostioles gaping, 0.1-1.0 mm diam., often with radiating cracks. Ascospores broadly ovoid with rounded ends, 4- locular, (18.7-)22.1-23.8(-25.5) × (8.3-)10.2-11.9 µm. Chemistry: TLC-.