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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 | ||
| Erioderma leylandii (Taylor) Müll.Arg. | ||
| Flora 71: 24 (1888) Sticta leylandii Taylor, J. Bot. 6: 179 (1847). T: Brazil, 19 Mar. 1841, Leyland; lecto: FH; isolecto: G, fide P.M.Jørgensen & D.J.Galloway, Fl. Australia 54: 314 (1992). *****Cetraria eriophyllum (C.Knight) Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univ. 3: 287 (1925); Platysma eriophyllum C.Knight in J.F.Shirley, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 5: 8 (1888). T: locality unknown, Shirley Herb. p. 6; lecto: BRI, fide P.M.Jørgensen & D.J.Galloway, Fl. Australia 54: 315 (1992). *****E. knightii Shirley in F.Bailey, Bot. Bull. Dept. Agric. 8: 96 (1893), nom. illeg. T: as for C. eriophyllum; holo: BRI. |
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| Thallus foliose, loosely attached, ±shallowly lobed, to 5 cm wide. Lobes short, 4–6 mm wide; margins entire, often ascending and involute when dry, showing whitish lower surface. Upper surface grey, ±smooth, but with a dense covering of stiff hairs, sometimes aggregated. Lower surface white, occasionally with hyphae forming a shallow vein-like pattern (x10 lens), with blackish rhizohyphae in marginal bundles. Apothecia marginal, sessile to subpedicellate; disc flat, becoming convex, often ±pruinose, dark brown to chestnut brown; proper exciple sparsely hairy, ±excluded at maturity, concolorous with thallus. Ascospores 10–12 µm × 7–8 µm, thick-walled. CHEMISTRY: medulla P+ yellow-orange; pannarin. | ||
| A very rare species in Australia, collected only a few times on bark in humid forests of Qld and N.S.W. | ||
| Jørgensen & Galloway (1992a) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
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