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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 | ||
| Ramboldia brunneocarpa Kantvilas & Elix | ||
| Bryologist 97: 297 (1994). T: Balts Spur, Tasman Penin., Tas., 43°05’S, 147°56’E, 420 m, on canopy twigs of Nothofagus cunninghamii in rainforest, July 1983, G.Kantvilas 154/83; holo: HO. | ||
| Thallus pale grey to greenish grey, thin and scurfy to rather thick, unevenly verruculose and deeply cracked, not delimited by a prothallus, esorediate. Photobiont cells 6–14 µm wide. Apothecia round or irregularly roundish, sometimes ±angular and deformed by mutual pressure when crowded, 0.8–1.4 mm wide, sessile; disc pale orange-brown to deep reddish brown, ±glossy, rarely ±translucent pinkish brown, plane to unevenly undulate and dimpled, occasionally becoming markedly convex with age; margin thin, entire or flexuose, concolorous with the disc or a little paler, ±persistent, inconspicuous in older apothecia. Epithecium 8–12 µm thick, pale orange-brown, K+ dingy grey-brown. Excipulum hyaline or very faint orange-brown within, K+ yellow → red. Hymenium 36–50 µm thick, hyaline, K–. Paraphyses conglutinate, slender and regularly tapered, 1.5–2.0 µm thick; apices neither swollen nor pigmented. Hypothecium hyaline, 30–80 µm thick, K–; subhypothecium to 40 µm thick, hyaline, K+ yellow → red. Asci 30–46 × 8–12 µm. Ascospores narrowly ellipsoidal to ±subfusiform, 9–16 × 2.5–4 µm. Pycnidia not seen. CHEMISTRY: Thallus containing norstictic and connorstictic acids. |  |
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| Endemic and scattered in cool-temperate rainforest and, more rarely, sclerophyll forest in N.S.W., Vic. and Tas.; corticolous on the canopy twigs and small saplings of a broad range of phorophytes. | ||
| Elix (2004d) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
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