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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 | ||
| Ocellularia bonplandiae (Fée) Müll.Arg. | ||
Flora 65: 499 (1882) Thelotrema bonplandiae Fée, Essai Crypt. Écorc. 94 (1825). T: “Habitat in America, ad corticem Bonplandiae trifoliatae”, coll. unknown; holo: G-Fée 241. Thelotrema auberianoides Nyl., Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn. 7: 451 (1863); Ocellularia auberianoides (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. 23: 395 (1891); Rhabdodiscus auberianoides (Nyl.) Vain., Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn., ser. A, 15(6): 184 (1921). T: Honda, Nova Granata [Colombia], 1860, A.Lindig 856; holo: H-NYL 3881. Ocellularia endoleuca Müll.Arg., Hedwigia 34: 143 (1895). T: Caracas, Venezuela, A.Ernst s.n.; iso: NY, US. |
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| Thallus endophloeodal to epiphloeodal, to c. 600 µm thick, pale greenish grey to pale olive, dull to slightly glossy, smooth to grainy-speckled, continuous to rugose or slightly verruculose, ±rimose. Protocortex discontinuous, to c. 20 µm thick. Algal layer well developed, continuous; calcium oxalate crystals abundant, moderately large to large, scattered or clustered, occasionally in columns. Vegetative propagules not seen. Ascomata ±conspicuous, to c. 1.5 mm diam., ±rounded to irregular, especially in fused ascomata, apothecioid, occasionally erumpent, solitary to fused or distinctly clustered, with several ascomata sharing a common thalline rim, immersed to moderately emergent, then hemispherical to conical. Disc with the columella visible from above, distinctly pruinose, off-white to yellowish, often fused with the thalline rim, entire to reticulate, especially in clustered ascomata. Proper exciple not visible from above; thalline rim margin to 1 mm diam., ±rounded to irregular, entire to coarsely split, thick, concolorous with the thallus to off-white or brownish; thalline rim incurved. Proper exciple fused, thin, pale yellowish to yellowish brown internally, orange to reddish brown or brownish marginally, often dark brown, rarely slightly carbonised towards the tips, non-amyloid. Hymenium to c. 160 µm thick, not inspersed, distinctly conglutinated; paraphyses straight to slightly bent, ±interwoven, unbranched, with unthickened tips; columellar structures well developed, to 400 µm wide, entire to distinctly complex, especially in fused ascomata, yellow-brown to dark brown, non-carbonised, covered with a ±thick layer of greyish granules. Epihymenium hyaline, with greyish or brownish granules. Asci 8-spored; tholus initially thick, thin when mature. Ascospores transversely septate, oblong to fusiform or ellipsoidal, with ±rounded to narrowly rounded, rarely subacute ends, hyaline, distinctly amyloid, 15–35 × 9–10 µm, with 6–10 locules; locules ±rounded to slightly angular in younger stages, ±lentiform to oblong or rectangular, with hemispherical to conical end cells; septa moderately thick, regular; ascospore wall thick, non-halonate; endospore thick. Pycnidia not seen. CHEMISTRY: — |
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| Occurs on bark in eastern Qld, at altitudes 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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