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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 | ||
| Pyrenula cruenta (Mont.) Vain. | ||
Étud. Class. Lich. Brésil 2: 197 (1890) Trypethelium cruentum Mont., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2, 8: 537 (1837); Melanotheca cruenta (Mont.) Müll.Arg., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 6: 397 (1885). T: French Guiana, F.M.R.Leprieur 14; syn: PC n.v. Verrucaria circumrubens Nyl., Bull. Soc. Linn. Normandie, sér. 2, 2: 90 (1868); Pyrenula circumrubens (Nyl.) de Lesd., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 62: 463 (1910). T: Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, 1864, C.Thiébaut; holo: H-NYL n.v. Verrucaria circumrubens var. rubrotecta Stirt., Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 17: 74 (1881); Pyrenula circumrubens var. rubrotecta (Stirt.) Shirley, Lich. Fl. Queensland 4: 179 (1889). T: Brisbane, Qld, F.M.Bailey 124; iso: G n.v. Trypethelium rubrum C.Knight, in F.M.Bailey, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 1: 152 (1884); Melanotheca rubra (C.Knight) C.Knight, in J.Shirley, Lich. Fl. Queensland 4: 167 (1889). T: Brisbane, Qld, F.M.Bailey; holo: WELT n.v.; iso: BRI. Trypethelium cinnabarina C.Knight, in F.M.Bailey, Syn. Queensland Fl., Suppl. 1: 76 (1886); Melanotheca cinnabarina (C.Knight) C.Knight, in J.Shirley, Lich. Fl. Queensland 4: 167 (1889). T: Qld, locality unknown, F.M.Bailey; holo: WELT n.v.; iso: BRI. Melanotheca rubescens C.Knight, in J.Shirley, Lich. Fl. Queensland 4: 167 (1889). T: Three-Mile Scrub, Qld, F.M.Bailey; holo: WELT n.v. [Anthracothecium sinapispermum auct. non (Fée) Müll.Arg.: J.Müller, Rep. Australas. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1895: 460 (1895) p.p.] [Bottaria cruentata auct. non Müll.Arg.: J.Müller, Rep. Australas. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1895: 460 (1895) p.p.] |
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| Thallus brownish to olive with small red patches, or completely red, lacking pseudocyphellae, corticate. Ascomata usually solitary, rarely 2–4 fused but with separate ostioles, subglobose, erumpent from the substratum, often partly or completely covered with red pruina, the sides often partly covered by the thallus, c. 0.4–0.8 mm diam. Ascomatal wall lacking crystals, to 200 μm thick; ostiole apical, black. Hamathecium inspersed with oil droplets, IKI–. Ascospores 8 per ascus, irregularly uniseriate, 3-septate, fusiform, with rounded ends, grey to brown, 25–35 × 12–17 μm; lumina angular; terminal lumina separated from the exospore by an endospore layer. CHEMISTRY: Thallus and/or apothecia with red, UV+ orange and K+ violet anthraquinone; or with haematommone (minor). |
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| Occurs in wet-tropical N.T. and eastern Qld; also on Norfolk Island. Pantropical, in open, coastal or inland habitats. | ||
| Aptroot (2009c) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
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