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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 | ||
| Myriotrema clandestinum (Fée) Hale | ||
Mycotaxon 11: 113 (1980) Thelotrema clandestinum Fée, Essai Crypt. Écorc., Suppl. 84, 90 (1837). T: “In America ad corticem Cinchonae lancifoliae Mutis”; lecto: G-Fée 244, fide M.E.Hale, Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 16: 32 (1974). Thelotrema terebratulum Nyl., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 5, 7: 315 (1867); — Ocellularia terebratula (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 29(8): 12 (1887); — Myriotrema terebratulum (Nyl.) Hale, Mycotaxon 11: 135 (1980). T: Rio Negro, Nova Granata [Colombia], 1863, A.Lindig 129; lecto: H-NYL 22637, fide M.E.Hale, Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 16: 32 (1974); isolecto: FH-TUCK, G. Thelotrema clandestinum Fée f. remanens Nyl., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 5, 7: 317 (1867); T. remanens (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 29(8): 7 (1887). T: Monte del Morro, Nova Granata [Colombia], 1863, A.Lindig 90; holo: H-NYL. |
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| Thallus endophloeodal to epiphloeodal, to c. 700 µm thick, pale olive-green to yellowish olive, often with paler patches due to the discontinuous algal layer, ±glossy, smooth, continuous to rugose, non-rimose. True cortex usually continuous, slightly yellowish, to c. 50 µm thick, formed by periclinal to somewhat irregular hyphae, rarely partly non-conglutinated and forming a protocortex. Algal layer well developed, continuous, but often partly thinning or patchily absent; calcium oxalate crystals sparse or absent, usually in scattered clusters; medulla distinct. Vegetative propagules not seen. Ascomata usually inconspicuous, to c. 0.3 mm diam., ±rounded, apothecioid, solitary or marginally fused, often clustered, forming dense aggregations, usually immersed, rarely somewhat emergent and hemispherical. Disc often becoming partly visible from above, pale flesh-coloured, epruinose to slightly pruinose. Pores small, occasionally rather broad, to c. 0.1 (–0.2) mm diam., mostly ±rounded to somewhat irregular, entire, rarely slightly split; proper exciple not visible from above. Thalline rim margin usually ±thin, rarely thick, paler than the thallus, forming a narrow pale brownish to off-white ring, level with the thallus to somewhat raised; thalline rim incurved. Proper exciple fused, thin to thick, hyaline internally, pale yellowish to yellowish grey marginally, non-amyloid. Hymenium to c. 90 (–100) µm thick, not inspersed, strongly conglutinated; paraphyses straight to sparingly branched, distinctly septate, slightly interwoven, with faintly to markedly thickened tips; lateral paraphyses and columellar structures absent. Epihymenium hyaline, rarely with fine greyish granules. Asci 8-spored; tholus initially thick, thin when mature. Ascospores transversely septate, sometimes with a single longitudinal septum, ellipsoidal to fusiform, mostly with narrowly rounded to subacute ends, hyaline, strongly amyloid, 10–25 (–27) × 6–8 µm, with 3–6 (–7) × 1 (–2) locules; locules ±rounded to somewhat acute, subglobose to lentiform or irregular, with similar or hemispherical to conical end cells; septa thin, sometimes slightly irregular; ascospore wall thick, occasionally with a thin halo; endospore thin to thick. Pycnidia in thalline warts, with brownish pores surrounded by a paler zone. Mature conidia not seen; according to Frisch et al. (2006) bacilliform, to c. 8 × 1.5 µm. CHEMISTRY: Thallus K+ yellowish, C–, P+ yellow; containing psoromic acid (major), subpsoromic acid (minor to trace). |
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| Corticolous in rainforest in eastern Qld, at altitudes up to 900 m; pantropical | ||
| Mangold et al. (2009) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
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