Natural Science Specimen
Natural Science Specimen
Classifier
Scientific Name
Pseudocyphellaria carpoloma (Delise) Vain.
Classification
Family
Genus
Species
Specimen Category
Storage Method
Field Collection Place
Locality Description
Cook Islands, Rarotonga, Te Manga - Te Atuakura Ridgeline, "Cyrtandra Gully"
Field Collection Date
09 Jul 2010
Field Collection Notes
Uncommon. In dark, very humid, north-facing gulch growing on Cyrtandra lillianae under a thick canopy of neinei (Fitchia speciosa), kaiatea (Weinmannia samonesis), kaiatea ko'u (Ascarina diffusa), kiekie (Freycinetia arborescens) and pua (Fagraea berteroana). Thallus when fresh adaxially dark olive green, abaxially yellow grading to brown centrally with yellow pseudocyphellae, apothecia present.
Field Collector
Field Collection latitude/longitude
-21.23667, -159.76275
-159.76275, -159.76275
Last Update
30 Jul 2019
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