Gabura fascicularis var. fascicularis
Common name
Jelly lichen
Synonyms
Arctomia fascicularis, Collema fasciculare var. fasciculare
Family
Arctomiaceae
Flora category
Lichen – Native
Endemic taxon
No
Endemic genus
No
Endemic family
No
Structural class
Lichens - Fruticose
Current conservation status
2018 | Data Deficient | Qualifiers: SO
Brief description
Two additional varieties are recognised in New Zealand and require further investigation.
Distribution
North Island: South Island: Northland to Southland.
Known also from Scandinavia, Europe, Great Britain, Greece, East Africa, South Africa, Indonesia, Japn, United States, Mexico, Chilie and Australia.
Habitat
Sea level to subalpine, most common in mixed rainforest and Fuscospora forests.
Detailed description
Thallus small to medium, 1-4 cm diam., to 1 cm deep, very swollen and much larger when moist, subcrustaceous to crustaceous or subfoliose, rounded or irregular, pulvinate to rather flattened, often ± globular and easily loosening when moist, usually not continuous, but variously fenestrate, in parts thin, membranous and smooth, in parts markedly rugose with dense, coarse, irregular wrinkles, or rugose-folded, distinctly to ± indistinctly lobate, dark olive-green to brownish or blackish, paler when moist, epruinose, without isidia. Lobes when distinct rather variable, ± broad, flattened, imbricate and adnate, sometimes distinctly lobulate with short lobules, margin thin somewhat swollen, ± entire. Apothecia numerous, dense, often crowded, rounded, flattened, sessile on thalline wrinkles, constricted at base, 0.8-2 mm diam., disc ± plane, dark red to red-brown or pale brown, matt, smooth, epruinose, thalline margin thick, prominent, rugose or granular, persistent, or thin and not prominent and ± disappearing, concolorous with thallus. Ascospores 6-8 per ascus, monostichous and imbricate or twisted, ± straight forming a bundle, vermiform, 10-17-celled, 52-95 × 4.5-5(-6.5) µm.
Substrate
Corticolous.
Attribution
Fact sheet prepared by Marley Ford (5 August 2021). Brief description, Distribution, Habitat, and Features sections copied from Galloway (1985) & Galloway (2007).
References and further reading
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