Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Gyalideopsis anastomosans Vězda & P.James, Folia Geobot. Phytotax. Praha 7: 209 (1972).

Description : Flora (1985: 178 – as Gyalideopsis cf. anastomosans).

N: Wellington (Butterfly Creek). S: Canterbury (Cass). On tree bark or overgrowing mosses in humid, shaded habitats. Known also from Britain, Western Europe (James 1975; Nimis & Martellos 2003), Scandinavia (Tønsberg 1992b: 142; Santesson 1993; Santesson et al. 2004) and North America (Tønsberg 1991; Esslinger & Egan 1995; Goward 1999; Nash & Tønsberg 2004).

Cosmopolitan

Illustrations : James (1975: 157, fig. 1A); Dobson (1992: 151; 2000: 166; 2005: 184); Giavarini & James (1992: 265, fig 15C); Goward (1999: 176, fig. 1A) [all as Gyalideopsis anastomosans].

Jamesiella anastomosans is characterised by: the corticolous/muscicolous habit; a pale-grey to greenish thallus delimited by a pale prothallus; few to numerous isidia-like hyphophores, 0.1 mm long, with acute, semi-translucent tips; red-brown to black apothecia, transparent when wet; and submuriform to muriform ascospores.