Caloplaca allanii: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Lecanoromycetes
- Order
- Teloschistales
- Family
- Teloschistaceae
- Genus
- Caloplaca
- Species
- Caloplaca allanii
- Scientific Name
- Caloplaca allanii
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Caloplaca allanii
Caloplaca allanii is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling) and crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. Found in New Zealand, it was formally described as a new species by Alexander Zahlbruckner. The type specimen was collected by Lucy Cranwell on Anawhata Beach (Waitākere Ranges, West Auckland) in 1932; she sent a dried specimen to Zahlbruckner for identification. The specific epithet allanii honours New Zealand botanist Harry Allan.
For decades, Caloplaca allanii was a poorly known species, known only from the type collection, and it was assessed as data deficient in a 2012 conservation assessment of New Zealand lichens. In 2014, it was reported to have been rediscovered, and the range of the species was expanded. Caloplaca allanii is endemic to the Waitakere Ranges coastline west of Auckland, and has been recorded from Bethells Beach south to northern Manukau Heads. The lichen contains several secondary chemicals, including emodin, erythroglaucin, fallacinal, parietin, teloschistin, and xanthorin.
...Caloplaca allanii in languages:
- English
- Waitakere Firedot Lichen
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
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- Caloplaca coccinea
- Caloplaca conchiliata
- Caloplaca cranfieldii
- Caloplaca crocea
- Caloplaca crocodes
- Caloplaca cupulifera
- Caloplaca dahlii
- Caloplaca delectans
- Caloplaca diphasia
- Caloplaca discolorella
- Caloplaca dispersa
- Caloplaca effusa
- Caloplaca epibrya
- Caloplaca erythrantha
- Caloplaca erythrosticta
- Caloplaca eugyra
- Caloplaca fecunda
- Caloplaca ferrugineofusca
- Caloplaca ferrugineovirens
- Caloplaca flavorubens
- Caloplaca floridana
- Caloplaca fluviatilis
- Caloplaca fraudans
- Caloplaca fraxinea
- Caloplaca fulvolutea
- Caloplaca fuscorufa
- Caloplaca gallowayi
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- Caloplaca granularis
- Caloplaca groenlandica
- Caloplaca gyalectoides
- Caloplaca haematodes
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- Caloplaca lecanoroides
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- Caloplaca leptopisma
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- Caloplaca litoralis
- Caloplaca litoricola
- Caloplaca livida
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- Caloplaca ochraceofulva
- Caloplaca odoardii
- Caloplaca oleicola
- Caloplaca oregona
- Caloplaca pallidior
- Caloplaca papanui
- Caloplaca parvula
- Caloplaca pellodella
- Caloplaca perexigua
- Caloplaca perileuca
- Caloplaca phaeocarpella
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- Caloplaca placidia
- Caloplaca platyna
- Caloplaca polycarpa
- Caloplaca pulicarioides
- Caloplaca pygmaea
- Caloplaca pyropoecila
- Caloplaca pyropoeciloides
- Caloplaca quercicola
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- Caloplaca rinodinae-albae
- Caloplaca rubelliana
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- Caloplaca ruderum
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