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Lichens A-Pac (2007) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens - Revised Second Edition A-Pac
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Bactrospora pleistophragmoides

B. pleistophragmoides (Nyl.) Egea & Torrente, Lichenologist 25 (3): 252 (1993).

≡Lecidea pleistophragmoides Nyl., Lich. Nov. Zel.: 102 (1888).

≡Lecanactis pleistophragmoides (Nyl.) Hellb., Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21(3/13): 120 (1896).

=Platygrapha mecistospora C.Knight, Trans. N. Z. Inst. 12: 377 (1880) nom. illeg. [Art. 63.1].

≡Lecanactis mecistospora (C.Knight) D.J.Galloway [as " mecistophora "], N. Z. J. Bot. 21 : 193 (1983) nom. illeg.

Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], Charles Knight – H-NYL 17015.

Platygrapha mecistospora. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], Charles Knight – H-NYL 17018 [fide Galloway (1985a: 206)].

Descriptions : Flora (1985: 206 – as Lecanactis mecistophora); Egea & Torrente (1993: 252).

N: Northland (Great Barrier I), Wellington (Karori). On rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) bark; still very poorly collected in New Zealand.

Endemic

Illustrations : Knight (1880: pl. XIII, fig. 45 – as Platygrapha mecistospora); Egea & Torrente (1993a: 241, fig. 12D–H).

Bactrospora pleistophragmoides differs from the related B. pleistophragmia (Nyl.) Egea & Torrente own from New Caledonia and Hawai'i [Egea & Torrente 1993a: 250]) in having slightly narrower asci and ascospores, and a deep-blue iodine reaction in the hymenium.

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