Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Platygrapha pallidella Nyl., Flora 50: 6 (1850).

=Platygrapha gelatinosa Stirt., Proc. phil. Soc. Glasgow 10: 300 (1877).

≡Chiodecton gelatinosa (Stirt.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App.1: 86 (1894).

≡Enterographa gelatinosa (Stirt.) Redinger, Feddes Repert. 43: 61 (1938).

Platygrapha gelatinosa. Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington, 1874, J. Buchanan 90 – GLAM [fide Galloway (1985a: 166)]. Isolectotype – WELT L 1843. Paratype – WELT L 1844.

Description : Flora (1985: 166 – as Enterographa gelatinosa). See also Sparrius (2004: 49–50).

N: Northland (Kawerua), South Auckland (Motuhora I., Rurima I.). S: (Edendale Reserve). A common epiphyte of supplejack (Rhipogonum scandens) and pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa) in moderate to deep shade in northern coastal forest, also on matai bark in Southland, and on decorticated wood of old buildings. Known also from India, Japan, Thailand and Tahiti (Redinger 1938; Sparrius 2004).

Palaeotropical

Illustrations : Redinger (1938: tab. 243, fig. C); Sparrius (2004: 83, fig. 7M; 121, fig. 29).

Enterographa pallidella is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the pale yellowish, fawn to green-white, minutely areolate, patchy thallus; lirellae in whitish or buff verrucae, innate, visible as very narrow, flexuose cracks, brown to black, sigmoid or branching, immarginate; fusiform, straight or curved, 3–5(–7)-septate ascospores, 16–24 × 3–4 μm.