Lecanora pulvinaris Zahlbr.
Thallus in clumps, rounded, convex, 2-15 mm wide and 2-4 mm tall, roughened, grey-white, matt, verrucose or granular-uneven, ± obscured by fruits. Apothecia densely crowded, sessile, rounded to irregular through mutual pressure, 1 mm diam. or less, plane to subconvex, brown, brown-black to olive, conspicuously grey-pruinose, margins concolorous with thallus or ± translucent, subentire, thin, minutely crenulate. Paraphyses simple, discrete, distinctly capitate, apices 5.2 µm thick, tinged yellow-brown. Asci clavate. Ascospores biseriate, ellipsoid, apices rounded, straight, 8-13.6 × 3.4-5.1 µm. Chemistry: TLC nil.
S: Southland. Known only from type collection. Lectotype: New Zealand. Southland, Clifden, on limestone. J.S. Thomson A 3, CHR 345803!
Endemic
