Teloschistes xanthorioides Js.Murray
Holotype: New Zealand. South Auckland, Tauranga, on mangrove. R. Filhol, CHR 162173!
Thallus foliose, fruticose, pulvinate, forming small clumps to 3 cm diam., and to 1 cm tall, corticolous. Lobes without marginal cilia or fibrils but with scattered white rhizines on lower surface towards margins, small, 0.5-1 mm long and 1 mm wide, often obscured by crowded central apothecia, ascending, branched, smooth, greenish-grey to whitish-yellow. Apothecia shortly pedicellate, 1-3 mm diam., disc plane, yellow, matt, margins entire to subcrenate, without fibrils or cilia, thalline exciple warted. Ascospores broadly ellipsoid, 13-15 × 8-10 µm.
N: Auckland to Taranaki. Epiphytic on both native and introduced trees and shrubs, coastal and lowland.
Australasian
