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Lichens Pan-Z (2007) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens - Revised Second Edition Pan-Z
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Thelotrema saxatile

T. saxatile C.Knight, Trans. N. Z. Inst. 8: 327 (1876). Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. 1: 278 (1877).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], 1.ii.82, Charles Knight – WELT Herb. Knight Vol. 36, p. 12 [fide Galloway (1985a: 577)].

Description : Flora (1985: 576).

Chemistry : TLC−, all reactions negative.

N: Northland (Fanal I.), Auckland (Waitakere Ra.), Wellington. On coastal rocks.

Endemic

Illustrations : Knight (1876: pl. X, fig. 27; 1877: pl. XXXVII, fig. 17).

Thelotrema saxatile is characterised by: the saxicolous habit; the grey-green, fawnish or pale-olivaceous, granular-warted or shallowly areolate thallus; 1-spored-asci; brown, muriform ascospores, 110–190 × 25–42 μm; and a negative chemistry.

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