Lecidea charadrodes Zahlbr.
L. irrubens var. albidior Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 303 (1941).
Type: New Zealand. Wellington, Tararua Range, Mt Dennan, c. 1200 m on granitic rock. E. Chamberlain 190, September 1933.
L. irrubens var. albidior. Type: New Zealand. Otago, Lamb Hill, near Dunedin, on schistose rock, J.S. Thomson (T 269) ZA 92.
Thallus irregularly black and white mottled, surface even, smooth, continuous, minutely areolate-cracked, areolae ± angular, flat, 1.4 mm diam., or less, intersecting cracks very thin. Apothecia round to subirregular, ± subinnate at first, 0.2-2.0 mm diam., disc glossy black, grey-pruinose, minutely wrinkled-plicate or papillate, peltate, margins raised, entire, glossy, black. Epithecium brown-black, granular. Hymenium colourless or pale straw-coloured, 60-80 µm tall. Hypothecium dense brown-black. Ascospores ellipsoid 13.6-18.7 × 6-7 µm.
N: S: Tararua Ra. southwards, in mainly alpine-subalpine grassland habitats.
Endemic
