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Lichens (1985) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens
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Porina indutula (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.

P. indutula (Nyl.) Müll. Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 92 (1894).

Verrucaria indutula Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 129 (1888).

Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, H-NYL 1981!

Thallus thin, grey-white or pale greenish-white, smooth to minutely and unevenly wrinkled or irregularly cracked, areolate in parts, following contours of bark, 2-7 cm diam. Perithecia numerous, crowded, black, minute, 0.02-0.2 mm diam., often covered with a thin veil of periderm, subconvex to immersed, with a minute apical pore often visible. Paraphyses, discrete, simple, filiform. Asci 8-spored, clavate, thin-walled, 60-68 × 7.8 µm. Ascospores fusiform with pointed ends, 5-septate, 17-22 × 3.4-5.1 µm.

N: Known only from the type collection.

Endemic

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