Flora of New Zealand Series

Lectotype (fide Santesson loc. cit. p. 538): New Zealand. Wellington, Kitchener Park, Feilding on Alectryon excelsum. H.H. Allan, W.

Thallus 12-22 mm diam., continuous or somewhat dispersed at periphery, smooth, greenish-grey to greyish-white, matt or slightly shining, prothallus lacking. Apothecia constricted at base, 0.3-0.5 mm diam., disc black, epruinose, plane, margins thin, grey, smooth. Paraphyses c. 1.5 µm thick, simple or with some few branches. Hypothecium bluish, 40-60 µm tall. Asci clavate. Ascospores 1 per ascus, muriform, ellipsoid, 55-80 × 13-20 µm.

N: Wellington (Totara Reserve, Pohangina Valley, Kitchener Park, Feilding). On leaves of Alectryon excelsum, Dacrycarpus dacrydioides, Podocarpus totara.

Western Pacific