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

Structural class

Lichens - Crustose

Lichen substrates

Corticolous (bark, wood), Saxicolous (rock)

Substrate details

Corticolous

Current conservation status

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

Detailed taxonomy

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

Ecology

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.

NZPCN Fact Sheet citation

Please cite as: Hutchison, M. (Year at time of access): Aptrootia elatior Fact Sheet (content continuously updated). New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. https://www.nzpcn.org.nz/flora/species/aptrootia-elatior/ (Date website was queried)

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