Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Lecidea carneola Ach., Lichenogr. universalis: 194 (1810).

=Pachyphiale cornea (With.) Poetsch [ sensu Galloway (1985a: 329)]. For a discussion of nomenclatural problems relative to this taxon see Laundon (1984: 230–231). 

Description : Flora (1985: 329 – as Pachyphiale cornea).

N: Sine loco. Collected in the 19th century by William Colenso from bark (BM). Known also from Great Britain, central and southern Europe, North and South America and South Africa (Lettau 1937; Laundon 1984: 230–231; Purvis et al. 1992; Nimis 1993; Santesson 1993; Esslinger & Egan 1995; Scholz 2000; Llimona & Hladun 2001; Coppins 2002b; Alvarez Andrés 2003; Nimis & Martellos 2003; Santesson et al. 2004). Still very poorly known and in need of collection in New Zealand.

Cosmopolitan

Illustrations : Lettau (1937: tab. 10. fig 131 – as Pachyphiale cornea); Dobson (1992: 220; 2005: 296); Thor & Arvidsson (1999: 294); Boqueras (2000: 298, fig. 48).

Pachyphiale carneola is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the thin, pale, scarcely apparent thallus; scattered, concave, red-brown apothecia, red-brown and translucent/gelatinous when moist, having the appearance of a small winegum; and asci containing up to 40, long, colourless, acicular, multiseptate ascospores.