Flora of New Zealand Series

P. subsimplicans (Nyl.) Müll. Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 91 (1894).

Verrucaria subsimplicans Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 130 (1888).

Porina albinula Müll. Arg., Bull. Soc. r. Bot. Belg. 31: 37 (1892).

Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, 1867, No. 13, H-NYL 1530!

P. albinula. Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, 1883, G638/9! (The type collection is from Cordyline australis bark).

Thallus dark olive-brown, yellow-brown or red-brown, effuse or lacking. Perithecia semi-immersed to ± hemispherical, black, shining, frequent, clustered, 0.02-0.15 mm diam., eroding and leaving small pits, apical pore minute. Asci thin-walled, clavate, 8-spored, 57-68 × 12-13.6 µm. Paraphyses filiform. Ascospores fusiform, 1-septate, rarely obscurely 2- or 3-septate, apices acute or rounded, 13.6-20.4 × 3.4-5.1 µm, septa mainly central, 1.5-2 µm thick.

N: Known only from the type collection.

Endemic