Lecanora flavopallida Stirt.
L. flavopallescens Knight, T.N.Z.I. 7: 362 (1875).
L. symmictoides Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 64 (1888).
Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington. J. Buchanan 82(d). Rec'd 14 May, 1873, BM!
L. flavopallescens. Isotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, BM!
L. symmictoides. Holotype: Nova Zelandia. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight 65, 1867, H-NYL 3133!
Thallus pale yellowish-green or greyish-green or whitish, often ± effuse and evanescent, minutely verrucose-uneven, granular, furfuraceous to ± continuous and irregularly rimose, matt or shining, in irregular patches 1-5 cm diam., delimited or not by a marginal black prothallus. Apothecia sessile (± subinnate on lignum), round to subirregular, solitary or 2-3-confluent and distorted through mutual pressure, 0.1-1.2(-1.5) mm diam., subconcave to plane to convex, disc pale to dark pinkish-brown with or without a thin, grey-white pruina, matt, margins persistent, pale flesh-coloured, entire to subcrenulate. Epithecium pale red-brown 10-14 µm thick. Hymenium colourless, 40-52 µm tall. Hypothecium pale yellowish 20-30 µm thick. Paraphyses simple, densely conglutinate, not thickened at apices. Ascospores oval, 17-22.1 × 10.2-15.3 µm, wall 1.7 µm thick. Chemistry: 2, 7-dichloronorlichexanthone, thiophanic acid and 2,5,7-trichloronorlichexanthone [J. Santesson Ark. Kemi 31: 57-64 (1969)].
N: S: St: Throughout, on bark of trees and shrubs and on lignum (especially fenceposts, power poles etc.), common and widespread.
Australasian
