Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Lecidea albicerata Kremp., Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26: 455 (1876).

≡Patellaria albicerata (Kremp.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 65 (1894).

≡Bilimbia albicerata (Kremp.) Hellb., Bihang. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21(3/13): 102 (1896).

Type : New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], Charles Knight s.n. – M (not seen).

Description : Flora (1985: 27).

N: ?Wellington. Known only from the type collection.

Endemic

Bacidia albicerata is characterised by: the corticolous habit; pale glaucous, effuse thallus; minute, pale yellowish gyalectiform apothecia, 0.5 mm diam; and 3-septate, ellipsoidal ascospores, 8–16 × 6–9 μm.