Catillaria subcarnea (Müll.Arg.) Zahlbr.
Patellaria subcarnea Müll. Arg., Hedwigia 32: 128 (1893).
Holotype: New Zealand. Stewart Island. T. Kirk 133, BM!
Thallus olive green or greenish-brown, granular-furfuraceous, shining, rather depauperate to ± absent, not delimited by a marginal prothallus, corticolous. Apothecia 0.2-1.0 mm diam., convex, biatorine, waxy, immarginate, plane at first with a thin margin concolorous with disc, soon occluded, disc pale orange-brown to flesh-coloured, matt, translucent, epruinose. Epithecium 7-9 µm thick, slightly granular, pale yellowish-brown. Hymenium 40-50 µm tall, colourless. Hypothecium 40-60 µm thick, pale yellowish or brownish. Paraphyses simple, free or conglutinate, 2-3 µm thick, apices capitate 5 µm thick. Ascospores biseriate ellipsoid-fusiform, with pointed or blunt apices, straight, 10.2-12 × 1.5-2 µm.
St: Known only from the type collection.
Endemic
A characteristic species on the bark of Metrosideros umbellata in association with Dimerella lutea. Easily overlooked.
