Lecidea sticticarpa Zahlbr.
Type: New Zealand. Otago, Waikouaiti Reservoir, on rocks. J.S. Thomson (T 1861) ZA 400, CHR 347063!
Thallus in rounded or irregular patches 2-6(-8) cm diam., dingy yellow-white or glaucous or fawnish, slightly shining, smooth or roughened-verrucose, areolate, areolae ± angular, 1 mm diam., flat. Apothecia rather few, solitary, immersed, 1-3 per areole, rounded, 0.1-0.3 mm diam., black, matt, sometimes grey-pruinose, plane, often wrinkled, and obscuring areolae, margins black, entire, not obvious. Epithecium granular, greenish-black. Hymenium colourless or pale bluish, 80-95 µm tall. Hypothecium colourless. Ascospores ellipsoid, 11.9-13.6(-15) × 5.5-7 µm.
S: Known only from the type collection.
Endemic
