Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Chiodecton subseriale Nyl, Annls Sci. nat. Bot. sér. 4, 15 : 52 (1861).

Description : Flora (1985: 165 as Enterographa crassa). See also Sparrius (2004: 60).

N: Auckland (Piha). S: Throughout, on bark of introduced, deciduous trees in parks and gardens. Still very poorly collected. Known also from Cuba, Socotra, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Is, and New Caledonia (Redinger 1938; Aptroot et al. 1995; Sparrius 2004).

Pantropical

Illustrations : Redinger (1938: tab. 243, fig. G); Sparrius (2004: 83, fig. 7N; 125, fig. 38).

Enterographa subserialis is characterised by: the corticolous habit; a pale-grey to pale red-brown, areolate thallus delimited by a black, marginal prothallus and forming mosaics on smooth bark; minute, punctiform ascomata with a dark-brown disc, arranged in thread-like lines; and 5–7-septate ascospores, 25–30 × 4–5 μm.