Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Synechoblastus microcarpus Müll.Arg., Flora 65: 292 (1882).

Description : Flora (1985: 136).

N: Northland, Wellington. S: Westland, Canterbury, Otago, Southland. Throughout on mossy bark, s.l. to 870 m at Arthur's Pass. Known also from Java, East Africa, Brazil and Australia (Degelius 1974; Swinscow & Krog 1988; Filson 1992c; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Palaeotropical

Illustration : Degelius (1974: 192, fig. 59).

Collema fasciculare var. microcarpum is characterised by: the taller hymenium; and the longer and often narrower ascospores (65–)100–170 × (2.5–)3–4.6(–6) μm.