Flora of New Zealand Series

=Trypethelium phlyctaena Fée, Essai crypt. Écorc.: 68 (1825).

=Trypethelium bicolor var. pyrenuloides C.Knight, Trans. N. Z. Inst. 16: 405 (1884).

Type: Trypethelium bicolor var. pyrenuloides. New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], Charles Knight – ? WELT.

Description : Flora (1985: 588 – as Trypethelium phlyctaena).

N: Northland to Wellington. On bark. Known also from India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia (Wolseley et al. 2002; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Pantropical

Illustration : Knight (1884: pl. XLI, fig. 20 – as Trypethelium bicolor var. pyrenuloides).

Trypethelium variolosum is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the waxy, yellow-brown, tuberculate thallus; perithecia immersed, aggregated in a pseudostroma, raised or globose-deformed, ostioles appearing as black dots; ascospores 8 per ascus, oblong with rounded ends, 3-septate, locules ovoid to oblong, 20 × 7.5 μm.