Trypethelium phlyctaena Fée
T. bicolor var. pyrenuloides Knight, T.N.Z.I. 16: 405 (1884).
T. bicolor var. pyrenuloides. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, ?WELT - not seen.
Thallus thin, waxy, yellow-brown, ± tuberculate or undulate, tubercles brownish-ochraceous, in irregular patches, 2-10 cm diam., corticolous. Perithecia immersed, aggregated, embedded in a pseudostroma, 1-5 mm diam., round to irregular in ± irregularly parallel lines, raised or globose-deformed, ostioles appearing as black dots, 0.1-0.15 mm diam., slightly raised, shining, clustered in groups (8-30). Interthecial hyphae loose, clathrate-branched. Ascospores 8 per ascus, oblong, 3-septate, 20 × 7.5 µm.
N: Northland to Wellington. On bark. Still very poorly collected.
Pantropical
