Massalongia carnosa (Dicks.) Körb.
Lichen carnosus Dickson, Fasc. pl. cryptog. brit. 2: 21 (1790).
Thallus small, squamulose, rosette-forming, 1-2 cm diam. Squamules elongate, to 10 mm long and 1-2 mm wide, ascending, imbricate, often crowded, apices incised, blue-grey to red-brown or brown, whitish below. Apothecia small, to 2 mm diam., pedicellate, disc red-brown, smooth, with a pale proper margin. Paraphyses simple. Ascospores 1-2-septate, ellipsoid to fusiform, 11-27 × 4.5-8.5 µm.
S: Canterbury (Hooker Valley, Upper Godley Valley, Glen Lyon Station), Otago (Williamson River, Forgotten River; Mt Maungatua and Swampy Hill near Dunedin). Among mosses and on stones in damp, subalpine grasslands, on river flats and at bush margins, 400-1200 m, easily overlooked.
Cosmopolitan
