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Lichens Pan-Z (2007) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens - Revised Second Edition Pan-Z
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Porina lamprocarpa

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

≡Verrucaria lamprocarpa Stirt., Proc. phil. Soc. Glasgow 10: 304 (1877).

≡Segestria lamprocarpa (Stirt.) Hellb., Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3/13): 132 (1896).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington, 1874, J. Buchanan 23/74 – GLAM [fide Galloway (1985a: 415)].

Description : Flora (1985: 415).

N: Known only from the type collection.

Endemic

Porina lamprocarpa is characterised by: the corticolous habit; dark olive-brown to red-brown thallus; semi-immersed, black perithecia; and broadly fusiform, 7–9-septate ascospores; 45–50 × 10–12 μm.

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