Porina tetramera (Malme) R.Sant.
Phylloporina tetramera Malme, Ark. Bot. 23A (1): 31 (1929).
Thallus irregular in outline, 3-5(-10) mm diam., formed by small, usually monocarpous patches, at first dispersed, then confluent, smooth, grey to grey-green, matt or subnitid, prothallus lacking. Perithecia dark red-brown, globose, constricted at base, 0.15-0.2 mm diam., surface roughened. Paraphyses simple. Asci obclavate, 8-spored, 40-62 × 7-9 µm. Ascospores 3-septate, fusiform, usually one end obtuse, the other acute, 16-22 × 3-4 µm.
N: Wellington, lat. 40°S to Cook Strait. On leaves of trees and ferns (Asplenium flaccidum, Alectryon excelsum, Beilschmiedia tawa, Olea cunninghamii, Podocarpus totara and Polystichum hispidum), in coastal and lowland northern forests.
Pantropical
