Australian Biological Resources Study
| Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories | ||
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References | ||
| Leptogium azureum (Sw. ex Ach.) Mont. | ||
| in Webb & Berthelot, Hist. Nat. Îles Canaries 3: 129 (1840) Lichen azureus Sw. ex Ach., Lichogr. Suec. Prodr. (1798). T: Jamaica, O.Swartz; lecto: UPS, iso: BM, fide P.M.Jørgensen & P.W.James, Lichenologist 15: 115 (1983). |
||
| Thallus foliose, loosely adnate, 2–10 cm wide, 50–100 µm thick, leaden grey to bluish. Lobes usually rotund, 1–6 mm wide; margins usually entire, often undulate; surfaces smooth or roughened, ±matt; isidia absent. Lower surface naked or with sparse, tufted rhizines. Apothecia laminal, sessile to shortly pedicellate, 1.5–2.5 mm wide; disc, concave, flat or finally strongly convex and hiding exciple, pale to dark red-brown; thalline exciple smooth, usually cream; pedicel sometimes wrinkled, to 0.7 mm long, ±half apothecial wide. Ascospores ellipsoidal, submuriform, 14–26 × 6–9 µm; apices acute. Pycnidia submarginal. Conidia 2–3 µm long; apices not swollen. | ||
| A pantropical species, moderately widespread in Qld and north-eastern N.S.W., less common southwards into Vic.; also in Christmas Is. Grows on bark and rock. | ||
| Verdon (1992b) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from Australian Biological Resources Study. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed in the first instance to Dr P. McCarthy. These pages may not be displayed on, or downloaded to, any other server without the express permission of ABRS.