Bacidia superula (Nyl.) Hellb.
Lecidea superula Nyl., Bull. Soc. linn. Normandie. sér. 2, 12: 87 (1868).
Bacidia mesospora Knight, T.N.Z.I. 12: 372 (1880).
B. pseudopyrra Knight, T.N.Z.I. 12: 373 (1880).
B. mesospora. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight 6.3.77, WELT Herb. Knight Vol. 46A, p. 19!
B. pseudopyrra. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight 8.4.77, WELT Herb. Knight Vol. 46A, p. 26!
Thallus dull olive-green or brownish, minutely granular-papillate, areolate-cracked, effuse or ± absent. Apothecia pale yellow-orange, translucent when wet, round to irregular, solitary or 1-3-confluent and deformed by mutual pressure, plane to convex, 0.2-0.4 mm diam., margins thin or lacking, concolorous with disc or darker. Hymenium colourless, 15-25 µm thick. Ascospores bacillar, straight or slightly curved, 3-6(-8)-septate, 24-34(-39) × 1.7-2.5(-3.4) µm.
N: Wellington. On tree bark, still poorly known and collected.
Palaeotropical
