Phaeographis intricans
≡Graphis intricans Nyl., Acta Soc. Sci. fenn. 7: 473 (1863).
≡Sarcographa intricans (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Flora 70: 77 (1877).
Description : Flora (1985: 519 – as Sarcographa intricans).
Chemistry : Thallus K+ yellow→red, C−, KC+ red, Pd+ orange; containing norstictic acid.
N: Northland (Kaitaia), South Auckland (Bombay Hills, Mt William Scenic Reserve). On Beilschmiedia taraire. Known also in the neotropics and in SE Asia on Mt Kinabalu (Sipman 1993; Aptroot 2002e).
?Pantropical
Illustrations : Staiger (2002: 330, fig. 122; 331, fig. 123; 503, fig. 247).
Phaeographis intricans is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the pale greenish grey to whitish, furfuraceous, granular-isidiate thallus; innate, rounded, irregular, stellate–convolute or radiate cracked apothecia, black with a grey-white pruina and granular, white-pulverulent margins; and ascospores that are 3–5-septate, oblong, one end rounded the other pointed, 17–22 × 6.5–8.5 μm; and norstictic acid in the medulla.
