Flora of New Zealand Series

P. circumcincta Stirton, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot. 14: 464 (1875).

P. creberrima Stirton, Proc. phil. Soc. Glasg. 10: 296 (1877).

P. globulifera var. glaucomopsis Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 67 (1888).

P. krempelhuberi Müll. Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 54 (1896).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington. J. Buchanan, BM!

P. creberrima. Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington. J. Buchanan vii rec'd 13 Sept. 1876, GLAM!

P. globulifera var. glaucomopsis. Type: New Zealand. Westland, Greymouth. R. Helms, H-NYL -not seen.

P. krempelhuberi is based on P. subverrucosa Krempel. , Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26: 452 (1876) - non Nyl. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, M - not seen.

Thallus olive green to grey-green, fawnish in parts, verrucose, nodular-papillate, globose, surface granular, congested, hemispherical or flattened, spreading in a thick, irregular crust, 2-5(-10) cm diam., saxicolous. Apothecia innate to sessile, margins often completely enclosing disc, thick nodular-papillate, 0.5-2.0 mm diam., disc pale to dark red-brown with a thin, white pruina. Asci clavate, 1-spored. Ascospores broad ellipsoid, apices rounded, 100-160(-230) × 40-65(-74) µm, wall 3-4 µm thick. Chemistry: TLC two unidentified compounds.

N: Wellington. S: Westland (Greymouth).

Endemic