Flora of New Zealand Series

B. laurocerasi (Delise ex Duby) Vainio, Acta Soc. Faun. Fl. fenn. 53(1): 175 (1922).

Patellaria laurocerasi Delise ex Duby, Bot. gall. 2: 653 (1830).

Lecidea ceratina Stirton, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot. 14: 468 (1875).

L. concinnior Stirton, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot. 14: 469 (1875).

L. praelucida Krempelh., Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26: 455 (1876).

Bacidia eucoccodes Knight, T.N.Z.I. 12: 370 (1880).

B. anceps Knight, T.N.Z.I. 12: 371 (1880).

B. stenospora Knight, T.N.Z.I. 12: 372 (1880).

B. rosellocarnea Knight, T.N.Z.I. 12: 373 (1880).

B. nanospora Knight, T.N.Z.I. 12: 374 (1880).

B. rhodocarpa Knight, T.N.Z.I. 12: 374 (1880).

Lecidea subrosella Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 96 (1888).

L. subrubella Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 97 (1888).

L. arceutinoides Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 97 (1888).

L. subsimilans Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 97 (1888).

Bacidia viridis Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 319 (1941).

Lecidea ceratina. Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington. J. Buchanan 84/74, GLAM!

Lecidea concinnior. Type: New Zealand. Prope Wellington, ad cortices. J. Buchanan, not seen.

Lecidea praelucida. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, M - not seen.

B. eucoccodes. Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). C. Knight, 5.5.79, WELT Herb. Knight Vol. 47A, p. 4!

B. anceps. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). C. Knight, 16.5.79, WELT Herb. Knight Vol. 47A, p. 5!

B. stenospora. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, BM!

B. rosellocarnea. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, WELT Herb Knight Vol. 47A, p. 18!

B. nanospora. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, 10.5.1879, WELT Herb. Knight vol. 47A, p. 27!

B. rhodocarpa. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, BM!

Lecidea subrosella. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, 1867, H-NYL - not seen.

Lecidea subrubella. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, 1867, H-NYL - not seen.

Lecidea arceutinoides. Type: New Zealand. Otago, corticola ad Dunedin. W.L. Lindsay, H-NYL - not seen.

Lecidea subsimilans. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, 1867, H-NYL - not seen.

B. viridis. Lectotype: New Zealand. Auckland, Rangitoto I. On Griselinia littoralis, H.H. Allan Z 78, CHR 373616!

Thallus pale greenish-white or olivaceous, shining in parts, becoming wrinkled-tuberculate, granular-verrucose or glebose, continuous, or in scattered colonies or ± squamulose, in patches 2-5(-10) cm diam. Apothecia prominent, solitary, 0.1-2.5 mm diam., round to irregular, brown-black or brownish-red, sessile to subpedicellate, plane or concave at first, margins entire, ± flexuose, disappearing with age, disc convex at maturity, matt, epruinose. Epithecium granular, red-brown to black, 5-13 µm thick. Hymenium colourless or pale brownish 65-90(-100) µm tall. Paraphyses dense, thin, apices clavate, red-brown to black. Hypothecium massive, yellow-brown, 200-350 µm thick. Ascospores filiform, acicular, 8-16-septate, 46-68(-90) × 1.7-3.4(-4) µm.

N: S: Throughout on Cordyline, Griselinia, Hoheria bark, among epiphytic mosses and ferns and often overgrowing these, lowland and coastal.

Cosmopolitan