Carpannularia re-examined

Arthur A. Cridland

doi:10.54991/jop.1968.786

Authors

Arthur A. Cridland Department of Botany, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1968.786

Abstract

Carpannularia americana Elias is a synonym of Annularia mucronata Schenk, not A. stellate (Schlotheim) Wood. The suggestion that reproductive structures are attached to one specimen cannot be sustained. There is only a case for intimate association.

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