Flora of New Zealand Series

A. (Lecanactis) verruculosa Knight, T.N.Z.I. 15: 353 (1883), Pl. 35, fig. 6 a,b,c.

Lectotype: New Zealand. Otago, Green Island Bush. On "Totara" bark. W.L. Lindsay, 4 November, 1861, E!

A. verruculosa. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington.) Charles Knight, WELT - not seen.

Thallus thin, grey-white, ± continuous, minutely and irregularly cracked, not areolate, surface very finely wrinkled-plicate, 3-5(-8) cm diam. Ascocarps rounded to subirregular 0.05-0.4 mm diam., scattered, mainly solitary to 2-3-confluent, plane with thallus surface, or slightly raised, disc plane to subconvex, black, white-pruinose. Hymenium pale brownish or olive green, darkening in K. Hypothecium 35-50 µm thick. Asci 33-40 × 16-17 µm, without amyloid ring. Ascospores 3-4-septate, ellipsoid, ends rounded or pointed, 13-16.5 × 4.5-5.0 µm.

N: S: St: Widely distributed on bark of Podocarpus totara.

Endemic