Lichens (1985) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens
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Graphis triticea Nyl.

G. triticea Nyl., Annls Sci. nat. Bot. sér. 4, 19: 367 (1863).

Fissurina consentanea Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 126 (1888).

Thallus crustose, grey-white to dingy yellow, thick and often warted, sometimes with areolae separated by deep fissures. Lirellae pale, immersed, narrow 0.1-0.4 mm long, thalline margin heavy, almost closing over hymenium, proper exciple pale, non-carbonised. Ascospores 8 per ascus, uniseriate, colourless, 4-locular, with thick sometimes halonate walls, 18-25 × 9-15 µm. Chemistry: Stictic acid.

N: ?Auckland (Charles Knight, H-NYL). Very poorly known in New Zealand.

Pantropical

Distinguished from G. insidiosa by the presence of stictic acid and the wide, halonate spores.

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