Leptogium menziesii (Ach.) Mont.
Lichen menziesii Sm. in Ach., Meth. Lich.: 221 (1803).
Thallus broadly lobate, orbicular to spreading, to 8 cm diam., greenish-blue or browned, muscicolous or terricolous, rarely saxicolous. Lobes broadly orbicular, papery and rather crisp, margins entire, wavy, often lobulate, upper surface smooth, not wrinkled, matt or shining, without isidia. Lower surface densely white-tomentose, hairs 100 µm long, cells cylindrical. Apothecia occasional to common, sessile, laminal, disc plane to subconvex, pale brown to red-brown, thalline exciple entire, thick, concolorous with thallus, wrinkled, hairy at base. Ascospores ellipsoid-fusiform, pointed or rounded at apices, 22-27 × 8-10 µm, 3-septate to submuriform.
S: Nelson to Fiordland. Alpine to subalpine among mosses in grassland, occasionally on stones in alpine grassland.
Austral
