Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Verrucaria magnospora C.Knight., Trans. Linn. Soc. 23: 99 (1860).

=Verrucaria magnifica Nyl., Lich. Nov. Zel.: 132 (1888).

≡Microthelia magnifica (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 31 (2): 41 (1892).

Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], Charles Knight, WELT.

Verrucaria magnifica. Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], C. Knight 349 – H-NYL 882.

Description : Flora (1985: 6).

N: ? Wellington. Known only from the type collections.

Endemic

Illustrations : Knight (1860: pl. XI, fig. 5 – as Verrucaria magnospora); Nylander (1888: Tab. 1, fig. 5 – as Verrucaria magnifica).

Anisomeridium magnosporum is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the grey-white, effuse thallus delimited by a thin, black prothallus; scattered, black perithecia, 0.1–1.1 mm diam.; and biseriate, large, 1-septate, equal-celled ascospores constricted at septum, 40–56 × 17–22 μm.