Phaeographis exaltata (Mont. & Bosch) Müll.Arg.
Lecanactis exaltata Mont. et v. d. Bosch, Pl. Junghuhn. 4: 475 (1857).
Thallus thick, pale, dull white, corticolous. Lirellae prominent 1-6 × 0.3-0.6 mm, irregular, branched and flexuous, sometimes stellate, often with thalline margin interrupting and breaking one fruit into several, proper exciple open, base carbonised, thalline margin distinct, often raised, disc plane, black or faintly pruinose and grey. Ascospores 8 per ascus, 6-locular, 20-30 × 8-10 µm, with thick, dark walls, younger spores brown, darkening and wrinkling with age. Chemistry: TLC nil.
N: South Auckland (Mt Moehau, Coromandel Ra.), Wellington (western slopes of Tararua Ra.). S: Nelson (Tophouse), Otago (Lake Howden, Dunedin), Southland (Doubtful Sound). Often on Nothofagus bark, montane, lowland and coastal.
Palaeotropical
