Flora of New Zealand Series

M. hypomelinus (Stirton) Müll. Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 57 (1894).

Lecidea hypomelina Stirton, Proc. phil. Soc. Glasg. 10: 305 (1877).

Megalospora dispora Knight, T.N.Z.I. 12: 378 (1880).

Lecidea concordans Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 108 (1888).

Holotype: New Zealand. Wellington. J. Buchanan, GLAM!

Megalospora dispora. Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight 305, WELT - Herb. Knight Vol. 53A, p. 4!

Lecidea concordans. Holotype: New Zealand. Greymouth. Richard Helms 236, 1886, H-NYL 10903!

Thallus greyish or glaucous-grey, minutely areolate-cracked, areolae granular-verrucose, thin, continuous, bounded by a thick black line. Apothecia sessile, 0.1-0.6(-1.0) mm diam., or subpedicellate, disc convex, immarginate, often globose-tubercular, 1-2 cm diam., black or brown-black, matt, epruinose. Epithecium blue-black, hypothecium bluish. Asci 2-spored. Ascospores ellipsoid, thick-walled, 34-46(-50) × 22-28(-35) µm.

N: Wellington. S: Westland (Greymouth). Canterbury (Porters Pass on Dracophyllum) on bark of shrubs and trees.

Endemic