Tephromela atra
Biostatus
Native
Current conservation status
2018 | Not Threatened | Qualifiers: SO
Category
Lichen
Structural class
Lichens - Crustose
Lichen substrates
Corticolous (bark, wood), Saxicolous (rock)
Substrate details
Saxicolous, corticolous
Detailed taxonomy
Genus
Family
Synonyms
Lecanora atra, Parmelia atra
Endemic taxon
No
Endemic genus
No
Endemic family
No
Other information
Tephromela is a genus of c. 30 species included in the family Ramalinaceae (Erikssson et al. 2004; Pennycook & Galloway 2004). Tephromela has a K+ purple epithecium, thick-walled paraphyses, simple, ellipsoidal ascospores, branched conidiophores producing bacilliform conidia laterally. Useful information on the genus is given in Kalb (2004) who describes several new taxa from Australia and Brazil. The dark purplish hymenium and the lecanorine apothecia associated with the most well-known species, T. atra, are typical of only part of the genus (Ekman 1996). One species is recorded from New Zealand, being known in the earlier literature in New Zealand lichens as Parmelia atra (Babington 1855) or Lecanora atra (Hooker 1867; Galloway 1985). It is a commonly collected species both from coastal and inland areas.
NVS code
The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.
TEPATR
Referencing and citations
References and further reading
Babington C. 1855: Lichenes. In: Hooker, J.D. Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839–1843. II Flora Novae Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless plants. London, Reeve. Pp. 266-311.
Ekman S. 1996: The corticolous and lignicolous species of Bacidia and Bacidina in North America. Opera Botanica 127: 1-148.
Eriksson O.E., Baral H.-O., Currah R.S., Hansen K., Kurtzman C.P., Rambold G. & Laessøe T. 2004: Outline of Ascomycota – 2004. Myconet 10: 1-99.
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.
Hooker J.D. 1867: Handbook of the New Zealand flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec’s, Lord Auckland’s, Campbell’s, and Macquarrie’s islands. Part II. London, Reeve.
Kalb K. 2004: New or otherwise interesting lichens II. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 88: 301-329.
Pennycook S.R. & Galloway D.J. 2004: Checklist of New Zealand “Fungi”. In: McKenzie, E.H.C. (Ed.) Introduction to fungi of New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand/Ngā Harore o Aoteroa Volume 1. Fungal Diversity Research Series 14: 401-488.