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Aptrootia elatior

Close up of Aptrootia (moist) showing bullate thallus and ascomata (perithecia).<br>Photographer: Andrew Marshall, Date taken: 28/11/2023, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Aptrootia elatior (dry state) herbarium specimen collected from Kawau Island.<br>Photographer: Andrew Marshall, Date taken: 22/11/2023, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Aptrootia elatior thallus and ascomata (dry state).<br>Photographer: Andrew Marshall, Date taken: 22/11/2023, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Close up of Aptrootia thallus and ascomata (moist).<br>Photographer: Andrew Marshall, Date taken: 28/11/2023, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Ascospore of Aptrootia elatior (from Kawau Island) - these are dark red-brown, and densely muriform, and are sufficiently large that they can be seen at low magnification.<br>Photographer: Andrew Marshall, Date taken: 28/11/2023, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Saxicolous on coastal rock, Whangārei Heads Northland.<br>Photographer: Marley Ford, Date taken: 27/01/2024, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Biostatus

Native

Current conservation status

2018 | At Risk – Naturally Uncommon | Qualifiers: SO, Sp

Structural class

Lichens - Crustose

Lichen substrates

Corticolous (bark, wood), Saxicolous (rock)

Substrate details

Corticolous

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Aptrootia

Family

Trypetheliaceae

Authority

Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot

Synonyms

Anthracothecium monosporum Müll.Arg., Ascidium elatius Stirt., Ascidium melanosporum C.Knight, Laurera elatior (Stirt.) D.J.Galloway, Polyblastiopsis monosporum (Müll.Arg.) Upreti & Ajay Singh

Endemic taxon

Endemic genus

Endemic family

Other information

Etymology

aptrootia: Named after Dutch lichenologist and mycologist André Aptroot

Referencing and citations

References and further reading

Bartlett J.K. 1988: Lichens of the Waitakere Range. Auckland Botanical Society Bulletin 17: 1-29.

Galloway D.J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Wellington: PD Hasselberg, Government Printer. 662 pp.

Galloway D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. 2nd edition. Lincoln, Manaaki Whenua Press. 2261 pp.

Harris R.C. 1986 [“1984”]: The family Trypetheliaceae (Loculoascomycetes: lichenized Melanommatales) in Amazonian Brazil. Acta Amazonica, Supplement 14: 55-80.

McCarthy P.M. 2003c: Catalogue of Australian lichens. Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 19: 1-237.

McCarthy P.M. 2006: Checklist of the lichens of Australia and its island territories. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. Version 29 March 2006. http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/lichenlist/introduction.html

McCarthy P.M. (ed.) 2009: Flora of Australia. Vol. 57 Lichens 5. ABRS, Canberra.

McCarthy P.M. and Kantvilas G. 1993: Laurera robusta (Trypetheliaceae), a new alpine lichen from Tasmania. Lichenologist 25: 51–55.

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