Lecidea dacrydii Müll.Arg.
L. eucheila Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 309 (1941).
Type: New Zealand. Sine loco. Colenso b 349, BM!
L. eucheila. Type: New Zealand. Otago, Mt Cargill, Dunedin. On rimu bark. J.S. Thomson (T543) ZA 103.
Thallus pale creamish to whitish, spreading in irregular patches, 2-10 cm diam., very thin, areolate-cracked in a jig-saw pattern, areolae angular, polygonal 0.1-0.5 mm wide, smooth or minutely roughened-scabrid, granular or scaly. Apothecia sessile, frequent, very small to 0.5 mm diam., usually less, plane at first becoming convex, subglobose, translucent when wet, red-brown to dark brown, matt, epruinose, margins very thin, concolorous with disc or darker, not easily seen, excluded in mature fruits. Hymenium pale orange-yellow, 65 µm tall. Ascospores ovoid, 10-14(-17) × 6-7(-8.5) µm.
N: S: St: Throughout, an encrusting species on bark of Dacrydium and Phyllocladus.
Endemic
On bark of Dacrydium cupressinum.
