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Lichens A-Pac (2007) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens - Revised Second Edition A-Pac
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*buellia cranwelleae [as cranwellii sic]

B. cranwelleae [as cranwellii sic] Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 375 (1941).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Northland, Anawhata, 3.ix.1933, L.M. Cranwell 114 – CHR 374329 [fide Galloway (1985a: 47)].

Description : Flora (1985: 47).

N: Northland (Anawhata), Auckland (Rangitoto I.). S: Canterbury (Banks Peninsula) on coastal rocks.

Endemic

Buellia cranwelliae is characterised by: the saxicolous habit (coastal rocks); the grey-white, areolate thallus; innate to sessile, scattered, black apothecia; a brown-black hypothecium; and biseriate, brown, ellipsoidal to oval or fabiform ascospores, 11–13 × 5–6 μm.

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