Porina lamprocarpa (Stirt.) Müll.Arg.
Verrucaria lamprocarpa Stirton, Proc. phil. Soc. Glasg. 10: 304 (1877).
Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington. J. Buchanan 1874, No 23/74, GLAM!
Thallus dark olivaceous-brown or red-brown, matt, smooth, continuous, rarely irregularly cracked. Perithecia solitary, scattered sparse, semi-immersed, ± in plane of substrate or very shallowly convex, black, shining or ± covered with periderm. Paraphyses filiform, discrete. Asci clavate, thin-walled 8-spored. Ascospores broadly fusiform with rounded or pointed ends, 7-9-septate, straight or slightly curved, 46-51 × 12 µm, wall to 2 µm thick, halonate.
N: Known only from the type collection.
Endemic
In Stirton's description (loc. cit.) spore measurements are given as 85-120 × 4 µm with spores being 10-20-septate. These results were not confirmed when the material was examined.
