Strangospora deplanata
≡Biatorella deplanata Almq., Bot. Not. 1866: 69 (1866).
Description : Thallus effuse, thin, partly immersed, ±minutely arachnoid, whitish, without a delimiting prothallus. Apotheca 0.2–0.5 mm diam., sessile, plane to subconvex, dark-brown to blackish, paler when moist, epruinose, surface somewhat roughened. Proper exciple well-developed, 30–45 μm thick, colourless to pale-brown. Epithecium pale-brown, red-brown to olivaceous. Hymenium colourless, 50–60 μm tall. Hypothecium pale straw-yellow, opaque, of densely interwoven hyphae. Asci 45–50 × 15–20 μm. Ascospores globose, 2–3 μm diam.
S: Canterbury (Christchurch). On bark of introduced trees in park. Known also from Great Britain, Europe, Scandinavia and Russia (Magnusson 1936; Purvis et al 1992; Nimis 1993; Santesson 1993; Scholz 2000; Coppins 2002b; Nimis & Martellos 2003; Santesson et al. 2004).
Bipolar
Illustration : Magnusson (1936: 32).
Strangospora deplanata is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the whitish, effuse, minutely arachnoid thallus; the scattered minute, dark-brown to blackish apothecia; muti-spored asci; and minute, globose ascospores, 2–3 μm diam.
