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10b. Lobes loosely interwoven or separate, not exceeding 2.5 mm wide; perforations<br />

very rare <strong>and</strong> irregular; lobes at least partly glossy brown, grey- or black-maculate;<br />

apo<strong>the</strong>cia absent; terricolous, saxicolous or epiphytic at high elevations;<br />

containing physodic, physodalic <strong>and</strong> alec<strong>to</strong>ronic acids. ......... Hypogymnia lugubris<br />

11a. Thallus <strong>of</strong> numerous, intricately interwoven lobes up <strong>to</strong> 1.5 mm wide; apo<strong>the</strong>cial<br />

margins with papilla-like projections........................................................ M. stellata<br />

11b. Thallus variable, short-lobed (<strong>to</strong> 3 mm wide) or with ± elongate, somewhat<br />

radiating lobes; apo<strong>the</strong>cial margins never with papilla-like projections ............... 12<br />

12a. Thallus with fatty acids.........................................................................M. asekiensis<br />

12b. Thallus with stictic acid complex .......................................................M. monospora<br />

Nephroma Key:<br />

1a. Margin <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> apo<strong>the</strong>cia with isidia, upper surface <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> apo<strong>the</strong>cia scabrid, pilose,<br />

thallus grey <strong>to</strong> brown .............................................................................. N. tropicum<br />

1b. Margin <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> apo<strong>the</strong>cia broad, without isidia, upper surface smooth, thallus grey.<br />

...............................................................................................................N. plumbeum<br />

Nephromopsis Key (after R<strong>and</strong>lane, T. & A. Saag 1998. Synopsis <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> genus<br />

Nephromopsis (fam. Parmeliaceae, lichenized Ascomycota). Cryp<strong>to</strong>gamie, Bryologie et<br />

Lichénologie 19: 175-191.):<br />

1a. Apo<strong>the</strong>cia laminal, always present ....................................................... N. pallescens<br />

1b. Apo<strong>the</strong>cia marginal or absent .........................................................N. morrisonicola<br />

Pannaria Key (after Jørgensen, P.M. & H.J.M. Sipman 2006. The lichen family<br />

Pannariaceae in <strong>the</strong> montane regions <strong>of</strong> New Guinea. Journal <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Hat<strong>to</strong>ri Botanical<br />

Labora<strong>to</strong>ry 100: 695-720.):<br />

1a. Thallus with bluish gymnidia (isidia without cortex)............................. P. conoplea<br />

1b. Thallus without gymnidia ........................................................................................ 2<br />

2a. Thallus with isidia................................................................................ P. prolificans<br />

2b. Thallus without isidia, usually fertile....................................................................... 3<br />

3a. Thallus with green pho<strong>to</strong>biont <strong>and</strong> cephalodia ........................................................ 4<br />

3b. Thallus with cyanobiont only................................................................................... 5<br />

4a. Thallus dominated by large, spreading lobes with green pho<strong>to</strong>biont, with cushions<br />

<strong>of</strong> globular cephalodia centrally...........................................................P. sphinctrina<br />

4b. Thallus dominated by brittle, ascending, small squamules; green pho<strong>to</strong>biont in <strong>the</strong><br />

marginal squamules only .........................................................................P. papuana<br />

5a. Thallus gelatinous, swelling much when wet, strongly wrinkled when dry P. lurida<br />

5b. Thallus not gelatinous, not or shallowly wrinkled................................................... 6<br />

6a. Thallus blue-green, foliose, with coarsely bundled marginal rhizohyphae;<br />

montane.................................................................................................................... 7

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