Bacidia buchananii
Stereocaulon buchananii Stirton, T.N.Z.I. 7: 368 (1875).
Bacidia pedicellata Knight, T.N.Z.I. 12: 372 (1880).
Lecidea subglobosa Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 93 (1888).
Patellaria wilsonii Müll. Arg., Flora 71: 541 (1888).
Gomphillus baeomyceoides F. Wilson., J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot. 28: 370 (1891).
Bacidia exaltata Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 319 (1941).
Lectotype (fide Lamb, loc. cit., p. 121): New Zealand. Prope Wellington. J. Buchanan, rec'd 18 Sept. 1874, GLAM!
B. pedicellata. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). C. Knight, WELT - not seen.
Lecidea subglobosa. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). C. Knight, H-NYL - not seen.
Patellaria wilsonii Type: Australia. Mt Macedon, Black Spur. F.R.M. Wilson, G - not seen.
Gomphillus baeomyceoides Lectotype: Australia. Mt Macedon, Black Spur. F.R.M. Wilson 65, BM!
B. exaltata Lectotype: New Zealand. Hawke's Bay. Mackinnon's Bush near Wairoa. On damp bank. E.A. Hodgson ZA 3550, CHR 373615!
Thallus thin, granular-effuse, powdery-furfuraceous, greyish or olivaceous or green, spreading in scattered, ill-defined patches 3-10 cm diam. Apothecia scattered, sessile, constricted at base and appearing ± subpedicellate, solitary or 2-3-confluent becoming conglomerate, 0.5-2.0 mm diam., pale brown to dark brown, smooth, matt, convex, immarginate. Hymenium 270 µm tall, yellow-brown. Paraphyses slender, 1-1.2 µm thick, not thickened at apices. Hypothecium 350 µm thick, pale brown or yellow-brown. Ascospores 4-6(-8) per ascus, filiform, ± sinuous with rounded or tapering ends, 30-75-septate, 160-230 × 3.3-4.0 µm.
N: S: St: Widespread among bryophytes on bark on trees and shrubs in shaded, humid, mainly lowland habitats. The species is discussed by Lamb (loc. cit.).
Australasian
