Lecanactis totarae Zahlbr.
Lectotype: New Zealand. Wellington, Halcombe near Palmerston North, on old bark of Podocarpus totara, near base of trunk. H.H. Allan ZA 3360, CHR 378579!
Thallus dingy greenish-white, thin, to 4 cm diam., closely attached to substrate in narrow bands, corticolous. Upper surface uneven, verrucose in parts, smooth and shining in others, sometimes wanting. Apothecia biatorine, sessile, constricted at base, often crowded and distorted through mutual pressure, round to irregular, to 1 mm diam., plane at first, with a thin, pale margin, becoming convex and immarginate at maturity, disc greyish-brown to brown-pink with a dense white pruina. Hymenium brown black near epithecium, elsewhere colourless 110-122 µm tall. Hypothecium brown-black. Asci clavate, apices rounded. Ascospores biseriate, fusiform with narrow apices, curved, 3-septate, 18-21 × 3.5-4 µm. Chemistry: Schizopeltic acid and two unidentified compounds (UV+ violet).
N: Known only from the type collection.
Endemic
