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Lichens Pan-Z (2007) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens - Revised Second Edition Pan-Z
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Pyrenula homalisma

P. homalisma (C.Knight) D.J.Galloway, N. Z. J. Bot. 21: 197 (1983).

≡Verrucaria glabrata var. homalisma C.Knight, Trans. Linn. Soc. 23: 100 (1860).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Auckland], Charles Knight 269 – BM [fide Galloway (1985a: 491)].

Description : Flora (1985: 491).

N: Auckland, known only from the type collection.

Endemic

Illustration : Knight (1860: pl. XI, fig. 9 – as Verrucaria glabrata var. homalisma).

Pyrenula homalisma is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the dark olivaceous-brown, matt to slightly glossy thallus in darkish bands or patches, 2–8 cm diam., not delimited by a marginal prothallus; numerous, prominent, emergent, flattened-applanate, perithecia, solitary to 4–6-confluent, with gaping ostioles, often with radiating cracks; and broadly ovoid, 3-septate ascospores, (18.5–)22–24(–25.5) × (8–)10–12 μm.

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