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Lichens (1985) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens
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Enterographa gelatinosa (Stirt.) Redinger

E. gelatinosa (Stirton) Redinger, Feddes Repert. 43: 61 (1939).

Platygrapha gelatinosa Stirton, Proc. phil. Soc. Glasg. 10: 300 (1877).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington. J. Buchanan 90. 1874, GLAM!

Thallus pale yellowish or fawn or whitish-green, thin, in patches, 2-12 mm diam., minutely areolate-cracked. Lirellae in whitish or buff, slightly raised verrucae, innate, 0.1-0.6(-1.0) mm long, visible as very narrow, flexuose cracks, brown to black, sigmoid or ± branching, immarginate. Paraphyses discrete, slender, divaricating, anastomosing. Hymenium colourless, 70-80 µm tall. Ascospores fusiform, straight to curved, 3-5(-7)-septate, 16-24 × 3-4 µm.

N: S: From Northland to Fiordland. A frequent epiphyte of supplejack (Rhipogonum scandens) in moderate to deep shade.

Endemic

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