Flora of New Zealand Series

L. monosporum (Knight) Hellborn, Bihang K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3) 13: 96 (1896).

Lecidea monospora Knight, T.N.Z.I. 16: 402 (1884).

Lecidea phaeomma Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 90 (1888).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco. Charles Knight, BM!

Lecidea phaeomma. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight 1867, H-NYL - not seen.

Thallus minutely granular, squamulose, scurfy, olivaceous, on bryophtyes, corticolous. Apothecia sessile scattered, 0.1-1.5 mm diam., convex at first becoming plane or subconvex, carbonaceous, disc black, roughened-verrucose, matt, epruinose, margins thick corrugate-scabrid, black. Paraphyses simple with swollen blackened apices. Ascospores 1 per ascus, muriform, ellipsoid, 70 × 28 µm.

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

Endemic