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Strigula oleistrata

Photographer: Peter J de Lange, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</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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South Auckland. On taraire (Beilschmiedia tarairi), from a specimen collected by Peter de Lange. Holotype: UNITEC 10258.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 25/10/2018, 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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Common names

pizza lichen

Biostatus

Native – Endemic taxon

Interim conservation status

Please note, conservation statuses are often proposed by authors of newly described taxa when they are published between NZTCS assessment periods. If such proposed conservation statuses are consistent with the criteria of the NZTCS, they are presented here as ‘interim’ statuses in accordance with the NZTCS manual, whilst acknowledging that they have not been formally assessed by the NZTCS panel.

2019 | At Risk – Naturally Uncommon | Qualifiers: DP, RR, Sp. | Interim | Ford M., Blanchon D.J., Veale A., Doyle E.J., Rolfe J.R., and de Lange P.J. (2019)

Structural class

Lichens - Crustose

Lichen substrate

Foliicolous (leaves)

Substrate details

Foliicolous

Threats

Sites where this species has been confirmed from appear to have both S. oleistrata and S. novae-zelandiae in similar abundances. Under these circumstances a conservation assessment comparable to that of S. novae-zelandiae is justified. Therefore, Strigula oleistrata has been provisionally assesed as ‘At Risk-Naturally Uncommon’ (Ford et al. 2019).

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Strigula

Family

Strigulaceae

Authority

M. Ford, Blanchon et de Lange

Endemic taxon

Yes

Endemic genus

Endemic family

Other information

Etymology

oleistrata: Meaning ‘strewn with olives’

Referencing and citations

References and further reading

Ford M., Blanchon D.J., Veale A., Doyle E.J., Rolfe J.R., and de Lange P.J. 2019: Hidden in plain sight—a new Strigula species segregated from Strigula novae-zelandiae (Lichenized Ascomycota: Strigulaceae). Phytotaxa, 424(5): 267-281.

Sérusiaux E. 1998: Further observations on the lichen genus Strigula in New Zealand. The Bryologist 101: 147–152. https://doi.org/10.1639/0007-2745(1998)101[147:FOOTLG]2.0.CO;2

Jiang S.H., Wei X.L. and Wei J.C. 2016: Strigula sinoaustralis sp. nov. and three Strigula spp. new to China. Mycotaxon 131: 795‒803. https://doi.org/10.5248/131.795

Jiang S.H., Wei X.L. and Wei J.C. 2017: Two new species of Strigula (lichenised Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota) from China, with a key to the Chinese foliicolous species. Mycotaxa 19: 31‒42

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