Flora of New Zealand Series

O. hians (Stirton) Müll. Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 74 (1894).

Thelotrema hians Stirton, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot. 14: 465 (1875).

Holotype [fide Salisbury Lichenologist 5: 263 (1972)]: New Zealand. Near Wellington. J. Buchanan 114, GLAM.

Thallus spreading in irregular patches, thin, continuous, irregularly wrinkled, plicate or minutely papillate, matt, olive-green, rarely minutely areolate-cracked, in parts minutely maculate (×10 lens). Apothecia numerous, from minute pin pricks to swollen dimples or papillae, to 1.0 mm diam., frequently less, pore neatly rounded, 0.02-0.3 mm diam., margins swollen, entire, concolorous with thallus or ± buff coloured, exciple detached, disc whitish-pruinose, grey-black below. Exciple carbonised. Columella absent. Hymenium colourless 115-130 µm thick. Hypothecium c. 22 µm thick, grey-black. Paraphyses filiform, dense, slightly thickened at apices. Asci 8-spored, spores slightly spirally arranged. Ascospores colourless, ovoid-ellipsoid, pointed at one end rounded at other, straight or slightly curved, 6-10-locular, 26-34 × 6.8-8.3 µm. Chemistry: Thallus K+ yellow → red. Salazinic acid with traces of stictic and constictic acids.

N: Known only from the type collection.

Endemic

Salisbury [ Lichenologist 5: 263 (1972)] incorrectly refers this taxon to Thelotrema subtile Tuck.