Flora of New Zealand Series

Fissurina novae-zelandiae Knight, T.N.Z.I. 8: 322 (1875).

Lectotype (fide Hayward, loc. cit., p. 568): New Zealand, Sine loco. ?Wellington. Charles Knight, BM!

Thallus thick, fissured, creamish-white, saxicolous. Lirellae flexuous, concolorous with the thallus, 1-2 mm long, immersed. Thalline exciple thick, convergent, disc visible from surface only as a narrow grey-white slit, base open. Ascospores 8 per ascus, colourless, 7-8 × 1-2 locular, 7-10 × 19-24 µm.

N: Known only from the type collection.

Endemic