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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
     
     
Pertusaria follmanniana A.W.Archer & Elix
     
  in J.A.Elix, C.E.Barclay & A.W.Archer, Flechten Follmann 22 (1995)
T: beside Sawpit Ck, Border Ranges Natl Park, c. 30 km NNW of Kyogle, N.S.W., 28°22’S, 152°50’E, 30 Aug. 1992, A.W.Archer P426; holo: CANB; iso: NSW.
 
     
  Thallus off-white to pale fawn, smooth and slightly glossy. Soredia and isidia absent. Apothecia numerous, crowded and often confluent, verruciform, concolorous with the thallus, flattened-hemispherical, 0.7–1.0 mm diam. Ostioles black, conspicuous, 0.05–0.10 mm diam., 1 per verruca. Ascospores 4 per ascus, ellipsoidal to subfusiform, smooth, 105–125 × 35–45 µm. CHEMISTRY: Thallus K–, KC–, C–, Pd–; containing 2-chlorolichexanthone (major), stictic acid (minor), 2-O-methylisohyperlatolic acid (minor), 2-O-methylsuperlatolic acid (minor), constictic acid (trace), 2-O-methylhyperlatolic acid (trace) and 2-O-methylperlatolic acid (trace).
     
  An endemic, corticolous species that is known only from the type locality in north-eastern N.S.W.  
     
   
     
     
  Archer (2004b)  

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