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Lichens A-Pac (2007) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens - Revised Second Edition A-Pac
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Buellia fuscoatratula

B. fuscoatratula Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 374 (1941).

Holotype: New Zealand. Otago, Goat Island near Dunedin, on coastal rocks, J.S. Thomson T 1044 [ZA 302] – W. Isotypes – CHR 374336, OTA.

Description : Flora (1985: 48).

S: Canterbury (Hawdon River), Otago (Otago Harbour). Inland from small stones on a roadside margin, and from coastal rocks. Recently reported also from subantarctic Marion I. (Øvstedal & Gremmen 2001: 555).

Austral

Buellia fuscoatratula is characterised by: the saxicolous habit; reddish brown to olivaceous, minutely roughened, mosaic-forming thallus, delimited by a marginal, black prothalline line; scattered, sessile, black apothecia, 0.5–0.8 mm diam.; a brown-black hypothecium; and biseriate, ellipsoidal to oval ascospores, 12–15 × 6–7 μm.

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