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Lichens A-Pac (2007) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens - Revised Second Edition A-Pac
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Lecidea conisalea

L. conisalea C.Knight, Trans. N. Z. Inst. 12: 375 (1880).

=Lecidea diacrita Nyl., Lich. Nov. Zel.: 80 (1888).

Type : New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], received xi.1883, Charles Knight – BM.

Lecidea diacrita. Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], 1867, Charles Knight 311 – H-NYL 20454.

Description : Flora (1985: 229).

Chemistry : Not tested.

N: Wellington. S: Canterbury (Kaituna Valley Banks Peninsula), St: Throughout, on rough-barked trees and shrubs, overgrowing bryophytes and commonly on Sophora.

Endemic

Illustration : Knight (1880: pl. XIII, fig. 38).

Lecidea conisalea is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the whitish to pale, glaucous, wrinkled–granular to fibrillose–pulverulent, encrusting thallus; pale-orange to yellow-brown, subglobose apothecia, with thin, pale whitish margins; and oval ascospores, 11–17 × 6–8 μm, with granular contents. As indicated above, this species is not correctly accommodated in Lecidea s. str.

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