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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 | ||
| Ramboldia arandensis (Elix) Kalb, Lumbsch & Elix | ||
in K.Kalb, B.Staiger, J.A.Elix, U.Lange & H.T.Lumbsch, Nova Hedwigia 86: 31 (2008) Pyrrhospora arandensis Elix, Australas. Lichenol. 55: 26 (2004). T: Aranda Bushland, Canberra Nature Park, 4 km W of Canberra, A.C.T., 19 Aug. 1991, J.A.Elix 26306; holo: CANB; iso: HO, MEL. |
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| Thallus whitish grey to pale grey or grey-green, indistinctly areolate, 1–3 cm wide, not delimited by a prothallus, with sparse to dense isidia or granules; isidia globose to subcylindrical or rarely squamiform, simple or sparingly branched or ±fused and granulose. Photobiont cells 6–15 µm wide. Apothecia round to rather irregular, confluent or not, 0.4–1.5 mm wide, sessile to subimmersed; disc pinkish brown to dark reddish brown, ±plane to strongly convex, epruinose; margin thin, soon becoming excluded. Exciple 30–60 µm thick, inspersed with orange-red pigment, K+ reddish purple. Epihymenium c. 10 µm thick, inspersed with orange to red-brown granules, K+ reddish purple. Hymenium 30–60 µm thick, orange-pigmented in the upper part, colourless below. Hypothecium 40–100 µm thick, colourless or inspersed to some extent, with the same orange K+ reddish purple pigment. Paraphyses simple or occasionally branched, rather robust, 2–3 µm thick; apices tapered or rounded, not noticeably swollen. Asci 25–40 × 9–12 µm. Ascospores narrowly ellipsoidal, smooth, 9–12 × 2.5–4.0 μm. Pycnidia not seen. CHEMISTRY: Thallus K– or K+ pale yellow-brown, C–, P+ orange-red; containing fumarproto-cetraric acid and protocetraric acid (trace). Apothecia K+ reddish purple; containing russulone and norrussulone (trace). |
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| Endemic and rather common in southern Australia (W.A., N.S.W., A.C.T. and Vic.); grows on decorticated wood in dry-sclerophyll vegetation. | ||
| Elix (2009e) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
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