Lecanora allanii Zahlbr.
Lectotype: New Zealand. Wellington, Manawatu Gorge, on rocks submerged in flood periods. H.H. Allan W 59, CHR 345882!
Thallus to 2 mm thick, margins lobate, placodioid-radiating, ± subfoliose, pale glaucous-grey or olivaceous, matt, distinctly and minutely white-maculate (×10 lens), areolate-cracked, cracks deep, radiating, areolae angular, plane, rosette-forming to irregularly spreading (1-)2-6 cm diam. Apothecia innate to sessile, 1-2 per areole, 0.1-0.8 mm diam., subconcave to plane, disc dark red-brown, matt, epruinose, margins raised, entire, concolorous with thallus. Epithecium not granular. Hymenium colourless, 120-140 µm tall. Paraphyses simple, dense, 2 µm diam., not thickened at apices, moniliform towards apices. Asci clavate. Ascospores biseriate, subglobose to ellipsoid 10.2-12 × 7-8.3 µm. Chemistry: TLC nil.
N: Wellington, known only from the type collection.
Endemic
