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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
     
     
Neophyllis pachyphylla (Müll. Arg.) Gotth.Schneider
     
  Biblioth. Lichenol. 13: 168 (1979)
Psora pachyphylla Müll. Arg., Flora 70: 319 (1887). T: Mt William, Vic., R.Sullivan 86; holo: G.
 
     
  Primary thallus squamulose; squamules thick, densely pressed together and imbricate, linear with depauperate lobes, olive-green to brown above, pale below. Apothecia to 2 mm wide, terminal or subterminal on short podetia, convex, shining, brownish black. Ascospores oblong-ovoid, 11–12 × 5–7 µm. CHEMISTRY: thallus and medulla K-, KC-, P-. Melacarpic acid present.
     
  Known only from the type locality in Vic. and Pigeon House Ra., N.S.W., growing on rock and on a clay bank.  
     
   
     
     
  Filson (1992c)  

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