Flora of New Zealand Series

Lecidea perluta Stirton, Proc. phil. Soc. Glasg. 10: 300 (1877) non Nyl. [Flora 59: 575 (1876)].

Bacidia chrysocarpa Knight, T.N.Z.I. 12: 374 (1880).

Lecidea albidolutea Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 99 (1888).

L. pseudophana Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 99 (1888).

L. gilvorufella Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 100 (1888).

Lecidea perluta. Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington, Sept 1876. J. Buchanan, BM!

B. chrysocarpa. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington) Charles Knight 24.3.77, WELT Herb. Knight Vol. 45, p. 18!

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

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

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

Thallus pale greenish or whitish-grey to olive-glaucous, continuous or ± areolate-cracked, or minutely verrucose-rugose or papillate or ± granular in parts, in patches 2-5(-8) cm diam., surface matt, not scabrid. Apothecia sessile to ± immersed, plane to convex, immarginate, 0.1-1.2 mm diam., round to irregular, scattered, pale yellowish-fawn to pinkish-brown, waxy, smooth, epruinose. Epithecium pale olive-brownish 4-15 µm thick. Hymenium colourless, 65-90 µm tall. Hypothecium golden brown. Ascospores (3-)5-8(-10)-septate, (35-)40-55(-68) × 1.5-2.5 µm, spirally curved.

N: Wellington. Known only from type collections but probably widely distributed in damp, shaded, undisturbed habitats. On bark, associating with Dimerella lutea, Dendriscocaulon spp. and Leptogium spp. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight 30.3.79, WELT Herb. Knight Vol. 46A, p. 2!

Endemic