Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight 30.3.79, WELT Herb. Knight Vol. 48A p. 20!

Thallus pale olivaceous-grey, thin, scurfy, areolate-cracked to continuous, areolae convex, verrucose, or minutely squamulose, minutely granular-verrucose or papillate, 1-4 cm diam. Apothecia pale red-brown or fawnish or pale orange-pink, sessile, solitary or confluent, 0.1-1.2 mm diam., round to irregular, ± flattened to subconvex, immarginate, disc matt, waxy, often minutely wrinkled-papillate, opaque when wet. Hymenium pale straw-coloured or golden brown, of dense, conglutinate paraphyses, 15-20 µm tall. Hypothecium massive, pale yellow-brown or red-brown. Asci uniseriate or subbiseriate. Ascospores ellipsoid 13 × 6 µm.

N: Known only from type collection.

Endemic

A very characteristic species distinguished by the bright, orange-pink immarginate waxy fruits on a pale greyish thallus, on bark.