Flora of New Zealand Series

Thallus continuous, smooth, shining, whitish-grey to greenish-grey, corticolous. Lirellae immersed, unbranched or nearly so, 2-4 × 0.5 mm, with a definite, black, proper exciple, and sometimes a prominent, pale, thalline margin, disc plane, black, base open. Ascospores 8 per ascus, brown, muriform, 6 × 2-3-locular, locules irregular, 28-36 × 10-15 µm. Chemistry: TLC nil.

S: Marlborough (Kaikoura, Hapuka River), Canterbury (Peel Forest, near Winchester). On smooth bark, lowland coastal.

Palaeotropical