Lichens (1985) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens
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Bacidia subcerina Zahlbr.

B. subcerina Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. K1. 104: 317 (1941).

B. albozonata Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. K1. 104: 317 (1941).

B. thalassina Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. K1. 104: 319 (1941).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Otago, Trotter's Gorge, on rock. J.S. Thomson (T 1414) ZA 3670, CHR 373613!

B. albozonata. Lectotype: New Zealand. Otago, Port Chalmers, on coastal rock. J.S. Thomson (T 1263) ZA 3790, CHR 373609!

B. thalassina. Lectotype: New Zealand. Otago, Port Chalmers, on rock. J.S. Thomson (T 713) W 34, CHR 373614!

Thallus minutely verrucose-papillate, olive-greenish, matt, areolate-cracked, areolae 1-2 mm wide, angular, plane, separated by narrow or wide cracks, in patches to 4 cm diam., with a ± conspicuous whitish marginal prothallus, 1.5-2.0 mm wide. Apothecia sessile, round to irregular, solitary to 2-4-confluent and then distorted through mutual pressure, 0.1-0.8 mm diam., plane or subconcave at first, marginate, margins thin, entire, concolorous with disc or paler, disc convex and immarginate at maturity, pale orange-brown to red-brown, shining. Hymenium pale straw-coloured or colourless 65-90 µm tall. Hypothecium pale yellowish, c. 45 µm thick. Ascospores fusiform, contents oily, septa indistinct, 3- (rarely 5-) septate, 17-25.5(-30) × 3.4-5.1 µm.

S: Eastern Otago, lowland and coastal on rocks.

Endemic

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