Flora of New Zealand Series

P. truncata Krempelh., Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26: 452 (1876).

P. ascripta Stirton, Proc. phil. Soc. Glasg. 10: 297 (1877).

P. fumosa Knight, T.N.Z.I. 15: 349 (1883).

P. cupularis Knight, T.N.Z.I. 16: 402 (1884).

P. subglobulifera Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 68 (1888).

Holotype: Neuseeland. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight 46, M 123-80/11!

P. ascripta. Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington. J. Buchanan. Rec'd 13 Sept. 1876, GLAM!

P. fumosa. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco. Charles Knight WELT - not seen.

P. cupularis. Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, WELT Herb. Knight Vol. 32, p. 15!

P. subglobulifera. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco, Colenso 4543, BM!

Thallus in irregular, continuous patches 2-6(-10) cm diam., olive-green to pale grey-green or fawnish, wrinkled-verrucose or shallow papillate, areolate-cracked, shining or matt. Fertile verrucae 0.5-1.5 mm diam., to 1.2 mm tall, sessile, rounded, white-sorediate at first, margins concolorous with thallus, thick, wrinkled-striate or ± exfoliating, white-pulverulent. Apothecia 1 per verruca, disc pale to dark red-brown or greyish with a thick, whitish pruina. Asci 8-spored, clavate, occasionally 4-6-spored with small or aborted spores. Ascospores oval, uniseriate, (18.7-)23-36(-40) × 12-15.5(-20.3) µm, wall 1.5-3 µm thick. Chemistry: 2 unidentified compounds.

N: S: St: Throughout, on bark of trees and shrubs in lowland to subalpine forest.

?Endemic