Flora of New Zealand Series

C. colensoi (Massal.) Müll. Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2 App. 1: 86 (1894).

Leucodecton colensoi Massal., Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 36: 266 (1863).

Platygrapha inconspicua Knight et Mitten, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23: 103 (1860).

Chiodecton conchyliatum Stirton, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot. 14: 471 (1875).

C. moniliatum Stirton, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot. 14: 472 (1875).

C. inconspicuum (Knight et Mitten) Knight, T.N.Z.I. 8: 321 (1876) non Nyl.

C. submoniliforme Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 117 (1888).

Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco. Colenso, ex Herb. Babington, VER!

C. conchyliatum. Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington. J. Buchanan, 121, GLAM! C. moniliatum. Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington. J. Buchanan, BM!

C. sinuosum. Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington. J. Buchanan, BM!

Platygrapha inconspicua. Lectotype: New Zealand. Auckland. Charles Knight 286 - 1858, BM!

C. submoniliforme. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight (labelled C. moniliatum Stirton), H-NYL - not seen.

Thallus in irregular patches 0.5-1-(-4) cm diam., pale brownish-white, grey-green or fawnish, minutely wrinkled-uneven, scabrid-granular, matt, continuous or minutely areolate-cracked, sometimes ± effuse or in parts lacking, delimited at margins by an irregular black prothallus. Apothecia in thalline verrucae, verrucae whitish or distinctly paler than thallus, raised, rounded to flexuose-elongate sigmoid, or ± confluent, 0.3-1.5 mm long and 0.1-0.4 mm wide, polycarpic, 1-6(-20) discs per verruca, disc minute, 0.05-0.15 mm diam., convex, plane or concave, black, carbonaceous or red-brown, rarely pale brown, shining or matt, aggregated or arranged in a row following shape of verruca. Ascospores 3-septate, acicular, flexuose, 46-56 × 3 µm. Hypothecium brown-black. Chemistry: TLC negative.

N: Auckland to Wellington. On bark of Dacrydium cupressinum, Phyllocladus and other forest trees.

Australasian