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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 | ||
| Haematomma persoonii (Fée) A.Massal. | ||
| Atti Reale Ist. Veneto Sci. Lett. Arti, ser. 3, 5: 253 (1860); Lecanora persoonii Fée, Essai Crypt. Écorc. 119 (1824). T: ad corticem Clusiae albae, Antilles, coll. unknown; lecto: G, n.v., fide B.Staiger & K.Kalb, Biblioth. Lichenol. 59: 150 (1995). *****Haematomma simile Bagl., Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. 7: 248 (1875). T: Abita, Keren, [Ethiopia], on wood, c. 4500 ft, 1870, O.Beccari; holo: FI, n.v. | ||
| Thallus white to cream-coloured or pale grey to greenish grey, smooth to rugulose and weakly warted, ±rimose and areolate, 0.3–0.5 mm thick, corticate, esorediate. Apothecia immersed and aspicilioid, rarely becoming sessile, 0.3–1.5 mm diam., sometimes confluent; disc scarlet-red to dark cinnabar-red or reddish brown, epruinose; thalline margin very poorly developed in immersed apothecia, but becoming distinct, smooth or weakly crenulate in sessile apothecia. Ascospores fusiform, 5–7-septate, 30–50 × 3.5–5.0 µm. Conidia curved-filiform, 16–20 × c. 1 µm. CHEMISTRY: Thallus K+ yellow, C–, KC–, Pd+ yellow; disc K+ red; containing atranorin, sphaerophorin (major), isosphaeric acid (minor to major) and russulone (minor). |  |
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| Scattered in coastal woodland and hinterland forests of eastern Qld and N.S.W.; grows on the bark of Acacia, Avicennia marina, Cocos nucifera and Ficus. Also in North, Central and South America, South and East Africa, Réunion, the Philippines and New Caledonia. | ||
| Elix (2004c) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
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