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Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories | ||
Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References | ||
Pannaria immixta Nyl. | ||
J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 9: 249 (1866) T: East Taieri Bush, Otago, N.Z., 5 Nov. 1861, W.L.Lindsay; lecto: H-NYL, fide D.J.Galloway, Fl. New Zealand Lichens 334 (1985). **** Pannaria flexuosa C.Knight in F.M.Bailey, Syn. Queensland Fl. II, Suppl. 82 (1888). T: precise locality unknown, Qld, C.Knight 8; lecto: BM, fide D.J.Galloway & P.M.Jørgensen, Fl. Australia 54: 315 (1992). |
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Thallus squamulose, orbicular to irregularly spreading, to 10 cm wide, with a conspicuous, marginal black prothallus. Squamules closely attached, imbricate and clustered, occasionally ascending or ±coralloid, 0.2–1.5 mm wide. Upper surface smooth, greyish to brownish. Cyanobiont Nostoc, in clusters. Apothecia frequent, sessile, to 1.5 mm wide; disc flat, ±waxy, usually distinctly gyrose with several concentric bands of sterile tissue, centrally often perforate, yellowish to orange-brown; thalline exciple prominent, crenulate, inflexed. Ascospores 10–18 × 5–10 µm; exosporium smooth to warted. | ||
Occurs on bark, on moss or on rock. A species of moist, ±lowland forests, rarely collected in Qld, N.S.W. and Tas., but probably overlooked as it is quite common and widespread in New Zealand; also in New Caledonia. | ||
Jørgensen & Galloway (1992a) |
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