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Strigula subsimplicans

S. subsimplicans (Nyl.) R.C.Harris in J. Hafellner & K. Kalb, Biblthca Lichenol. 57: 175 (1995).

≡Verrucaria subsimplicans Nyl., Lich. Nov. Zel.: 130 (1888).

≡Porina subsimplicans (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 91 (1894).

≡Segestria subsimplicans (Nyl.) Hellb., Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3/13): 132 (1896).

≡Diporina subsimplicans (Nyl.) Clem., Gen. Fungi: 40, 173 (1909).

=Porina albinula Müll.Arg., Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 31 (2): 37 (1892).

≡Segestria albinula (Müll.Arg.) Hellb., Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3/13): 132 (1896).

Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Auckland], 1867, Charles Knight No. 13 – N-NYL 1530.

Porina albinula. Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], 1883, Charles Knight – G 638/9 [the type collection is from the bark of Cordyline australis].

Description : Flora (1985: 417 – as Porina subsimplicans)

N: Auckland and Wellington. Known only from the type collections.

Endemic

Strigula subsimplicans is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the olivaceous to yellow-brown or red-brown thallus; fusiform 1-septate (rarely obscurely 2–3-septate) ascospores, 13–20.5 × 3.5–5 μm.