Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Phylloporina tetramera Malme, Ark. Bot. 23A (1): 31 (1929).

Description : Flora (1985: 418).

N: Auckland (Waitakere Ra.), Wellington (Kitchener Park Feilding, Totara Reserve Pohangina Valley, Colonial Knob Wellington). S: Canterbury (Peel Forest). On leaves of trees and ferns (Asplenium flaccidum, Alectryon excelsum, Beilschmiedia tawa, Olea cunninghamii, Podocarpus totara and Polystichum hispidum), in coastal and lowland forest. Known also from W Africa, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Venezuela, Paraguay, Brazil, Japan, Cocos Is, and New Caledonia (Santesson 1952; Lücking1992; Lücking & Lücking 1995; Thor et al. 2000; Lücking & Kalb 2001; Herrera-Campos et al. 2004). A detailed geographical distribution of the species is given in McCarthy (2003d: 97–98).

Pantropical

Exsiccati : Vězda (1994b: No.136).

Porina tetramera is characterised by: the foliicolous habit; the dispersed, greyish thallus; the large (0.2–0.3 mm diam.) dark reddish brown perithecia, with a thin greyish thalline covering; and the medium-sized, 3-septate ascospores, 16–22 × 3–4 μm.