Flora of New Zealand Series

=Opegrapha fuscescens Kremp., Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26: 458 (1876).

=Opegrapha spodoelaeina C.Knight, Trans. N. Z. Inst. 16: 403 (1884).

?=Phaeographis (Solenothecium) fineranii C.W.Dodge in B.A. Fineran, Trans. Roy. Soc. N. Z. (Bot.) 3 (17): 249 (1969).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Otago, Dunedin, 1861, W.L. Lindsay – H-NYL 6110 [fide G. Hayward (1977: 578)]. Isolectotype – E [Lauder Lindsay's annotation on his specimen, in E, reads thus "... On trunks of living trees, Greenisland [sic] Bush, Otago, N.Z. Novem.4, 1861" (Dr B.J. Coppins, pers. comm.)].

Opegrapha fuscescens. Lectotype designated here: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], Charles Knight s.n. – M 0023568. Isolectotype – M 0023570.

Opegrapha spodoelaeina. Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], Charles Knight No. 20 – WELT Herb. Knight, Vol. 65A, p. 9.

Phaeographis (Solenothecium )fineranii. Holotype: New Zealand. Snares Is, on branch of Hebe elliptica, 7.ii. 1961, B.A. Fineran 120a – CANU.

Description : Flora (1985: 326).

Chemistry : TLC−, all reactions negative.

N: Northland (Three Kings Is, Motorua I., Kaitaia, Waipoua Forest, Kawerua, Bay of Islands, Poor Knights Is, Hen & Chickens Is, Fanal I., Rakitu I., Kaipara North Head, Tutukaka, Little Barrier I., Great Barrier I.), Auckland (Waitakere Ra., Auckland City), South Auckland (Great Mercury I, Maungatawhiri, Rabbit I.), Taranaki (New Plymouth), Wellington (near Feilding). S: Marlborough (d'Urville I., Chetwode Is), Canterbury (Christchurch City), Otago (Anderson's Bay, Dunedin, Green Island, Pounawea), Southland (Bluff). St: (Herekopere I., Islet Cove Port Pegasus). On smooth bark of trees, Crataegus, Ligustrum, Myrsine australis, Weinmannia racemosa, on lowland and coastal forest and scrub, and on trees in urban streets and parks in sites having moderate to heavy pollution (Johnson et al. 1998). Known also from Western Samoa and Tasmania (Kantvilas & James 1991: 280; Elix & McCarthy 1998; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

?Palaeotropical

Exsiccati : Vězda (1982a: No. 1828).

Illustrations : Knight (1884: pl. XL, fig. 13 – as Opegrapha spodoelaeina); Nylander (1888: tab. 1, fig. 9); Hayward (1977: 578, fig. 11A; 581, fig. 13A).

Opegrapha agelaeoides is characterised by: the corticolous habit; prominent, black, unbranched lirellae, 0.5–2 mm long, 0.3 mm wide and with convergent lips; fusiform, 6–7-septate ascospores, (20–)30–36(–44) × 5–9(–12) μm.