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 limbatum F.Wilson | ||
| Victorian Naturalist 6: 63 (1889) T: Mt Macedon, Vic., 1887, F.R.M.Wilson; lecto: NSW; iso: BRI., fide D.Verdon, Mycotaxon 37: 436 (1990). *****L. tremelloides var. limbatum (F.Wilson) Müll. Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 4: 87 (1896). *****L. inflexum var. limbatum F.Wilson, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 5: 158 (1893). T: Warburton, Vic., 1885, F.R.M.Wilson; lecto: NSW, fide D.Verdon, loc. cit. |
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| Thallus foliose, loosely adnate, 1–4 cm wide, 60–130 µm thick, sordid to bluish leaden grey, or browned. Lobes rotund, rarely oblong, flat or concave, 1.5–5 mm wide; margins ±undulate, isidiate, becoming thickened and whitish; isidia ±dense, squamuliform; surfaces smooth to roughened, matt, usually not isidiate. Lower surface often with conspicuous rhizine bundles, but never uniformly tomentose. Apothecia rare, laminal, ±sessile, 0.8–1.5 mm wide; disc pale orange, concave to flat; thalline exciple smooth, concolorus with thallus or whitish cream. Ascospores ellipsoidal to ovoid, sparingly muriform, 23–30 × 10–15 µm; apices obtuse, one often narrower than the other. Pycnidia not seen. | ||
| Occurs from north-eastern N.S.W. S to Vic. and Tas.; endemic. Grows on bark of trees or shrubs in montane and subalpine moist forest and in subalpine moist heath. | ||
| Verdon (1992b) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
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