Lecidea aucklandica Zahlbr.
Type: New Zealand. North Auckland, Mahurangi River, on Avicennia officinalis. L.B. Moore ZA 130, 3.9.1933.
Thallus epiphloeodal, spreading, 1.0-1.5 cm diam., 0.1 mm thick, slightly roughened or verrucose, pale whitish or glaucous-green, continuous, minutely granular-wrinkled. Apothecia round to irregular, scattered, sessile, 0.1-0.6 mm diam., pale brown-pink, opaque, epruinose, plane or subconvex to ± flattened, margins thin, entire, translucent when wet. Epithecium pale olive-brownish, granular, 5-9 µm thick. Hymenium colourless, 40-65 µm tall. Hypothecium pale yellow-brown. Ascospores ellipsoid to oval, 10.2-12.0 × 5.1-7 µm.
N: North Auckland. Coastal, on mangrove bark.
Endemic
