Alectoria smithii Du Rietz

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LICHENES EXSICCATI Distributed by the University of Colorado Museum, Boulder
No. 345. ALECTORIA SMITHII DuRietz	\	BÓTAÑCAI
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NORTHEAST NEW GUINEA. EASTERN HIGHLANDS. Bismarck Ranges: Mount Wilhelm; abundant on trees of subalpine groves above Lake Aunde on Imbuka Ridge, 1-1,500 ft. alt. This and No. 346, A. poeltii Bystrek occur intertwined on the same host. A. smithii is characterized by a fissured thallus with poorly developed soralia,
Pd negative. Dupl. verified by D. L. Hawksworth, 1969.
3 July 1968	W.	A.	Weber	&	D.	McVean
BOTANICAL
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