Lecidea spermogoniata Zahlbr.
L. otagoana Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 310 (1941).
Lectotype: New Zealand. Wellington, Halcombe near Palmerston North, on Podocarpus totara in forest. On old bark near base of trunk. H.H. Allan ZA 3340, CHR 347059!
L. otagoana. Lectotype: New Zealand. Otago, forest at mouth of Tokomairiro River. On Dacrydium cupressinum. J.S. Thomson (T 2306) V 52, CHR 347200!
Thallus epiphloeodal, spreading, very thin, in narrow bands or patches 1-4 × 0.5 cm diam., pale greenish-grey, minutely granular-verrucose papillate, ± diffract, effuse or lacking. Apothecia scattered or crowded, sessile, rounded or irregular-crenate, 0.1-0.8(-1.0) mm diam., constricted at base, flesh pink to orange-brownish, ± translucent when wet, concave at first, plane or subconvex and rather uneven, margins entire or crenulate, most conspicuous in young fruits, very thin, concolorous with disc or slightly blackened. Epithecium orange-brown, 9-13 µm thick. Hymenium pale straw-coloured, 20-40(-65) µm tall. Hypothecium orange-brownish, 50-75 µm thick. Ascospores fusiform-ellipsoid, 8.3-11.9(-13.0) × 1.7-3.4 µm.
N: S: St: Throughout, on podocarp bark, coastal and lowland.
Endemic
