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Lichens Pan-Z (2007) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens - Revised Second Edition Pan-Z
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Tremotylium occultum

T. occultum Stirt., Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 14: 465 (1875).

Holotype: New Zealand. Wellington, on bark of trees, J. Buchanan s.n. – GLAM. Isotypes – ?BM, ?CHR, ?WELT

Description : Flora (1985: 586).

N: Wellington. Known only from the type collection.

Endemic

Tremotylium occultum is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the immersed or depressed, urceolate, brown plane to subconcave apothecia that are oblong to elongate or radiate, and hidden by a thick cerebriform thalline margin; and large, brown, muriform ascospores, 60–80 × 30–32 μm.

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