Lecidea dunedina Zahlbr.
Type: New Zealand. Otago, Abbots Hill, on rock. August 1933, J.S. Thomson 133. The other specimen (from Kyeburn) cited by Zahlbruckner in the protologue is referable to L. lapicida (Ach.) Ach. (Dr H. Hertel. pers. comm.).
Thallus dingy grey-white, in part suffused rust-red, in irregular, smooth patches, to 5 cm diam., matt, areolate-cracked, areolae 1-3.5 mm wide, subangular, uneven, fissures narrow. Apothecia sessile to subinnate, often crowded and ± deformed, 1-4(-6)-confluent, black, matt, epruinose, cracked, 0.1-0.6(-1.0) mm diam., plane to subconvex, uneven, margins narrow, entire or flexuose, concolorous with disc. Epithecium grey-green to black, 4-10 µm thick. Hymenium colourless, 35-50 µm tall. Hypothecium ochre-brown. Ascospores subcylindrical-oblong, 8.3-10.2 × 3-5.1 µm.
S: Otago, on rock, coastal and inland, subalpine.
Endemic
