Caloplaca acheila Zahlbr.

Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 104: 367 (1941).

 

 

Description: Lichen. Thallus crustose, minute, dispersed, of oblong or sublinear granules, to 1 mm long and 0.2 mm wide, suberect or convex or unevenly swollen, effuse or lacking, whitish, K-, saxicolous. Apothecia sessile, crowded to dispersed, 0.05-0.3 mm diam., disc matt, orange, epruinose, concave, rarely plane, margins entire, persistent, whitish to concolorous with disc. Ascospores biseriate, ellipsoid, apices rounded, straight, 2-locular, septum c. 1/3 length of spore, 11-13-17 / 6-8.3 µm (Galloway 1985: 62).

Photobiont: Data lacking.

Chemistry: No lichen substances.

Ecology: Data lacking.

Distribution type: Endemic to New Zealand in Galloway (xx: xx).

Taxonomy: "This species is not well separated from C. allanii" (Galloway 1985: 62). In Galloway (2007: xx) accepted to be common on coastal rock.

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Distribution Database: Distributions

Distribution Database: Discover Life

Picture Database: Tropical Lichens

Molecular Database: Genbank

Synonym Database: Index Fungorum

Synonym Database: Mycobank