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Lichens A-Pac (2007) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens - Revised Second Edition A-Pac
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Bacidia albidoprasina

B. albidoprasina C.Knight, Trans. N. Z. Inst. 12: 374 (1880).

=Lecidea rosellopallida Nyl., Lich. Nov. Zel.: 98 (1888).

≡Patellaria rosellopallida (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 66 (1894).

≡Bacidia rosellopallida (Nyl.) Hellb., Bihang K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3/13): 100 (1896).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], 26.iv.79, Charles Knight – WELT, Herb. Knight Vol. 46A, p. 17 [fide Galloway (1985a: 28)].

Lecidea rosellopallida. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], 1882, Charles Knight, ex Herb. J.M. Crombie – BM [fide Galloway (1985a: 28)]. Isolectotype – WELT?

Description : Flora (1985: 28)

N: Northland (Anawhata), South Auckland (Kihikihi) to Wellington. On bark of Rhopalostylus sapida.

Endemic

Illustration : Knight (1880: pl. XIII, fig. 33).

Bacidia albidoprasina is characterised by: the corticolous habit; pale greenish or greyish, minutely areolate thallus delimited by wavy black or brown lines; pale pinkish or orange-brown apothecia; and 3–7-septate acicular ascospores, 44–88 × 1–2 μm.

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