Catillaria semipallida (C.Knight) Zahlbr.
Lecidea semipallida Knight, T.N.Z.I. 12: 376 (1880).
Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, WELT Herb. Knight Vol. 49A, p. 26!
Thallus pale whitish-grey, minutely scurfy or ± obsolete or lacking, visible as pale grey-white patches on decorticated wood. Apothecia biatorine, applanate, immarginate, convex, 1-3-confluent, red-brown or pale brown to slightly blackened, minute, 0.05-0.2 mm diam., scattered, numerous. Epithecium pale brownish-olivaceous 8-12 µm. Hymenium pale yellowish or colourless 20-26 µm tall. Hypothecium pale brownish-yellow 15-20 µm thick. Paraphyses simple, multiseptate, apices not swollen. Ascospores minute, ellipsoid-oblong to subfusiform, straight or curved, apices rounded or acute, 9-13.6 × 1.7-3.4 µm.
N: Known only from the type collection, but probably widely distributed.
Endemic
