Flora of New Zealand Series

Holotype: New Zealand. Wellington, Colonial Knob, on leaves of Polystichum hispidum, 1944, H.H. Allan – UPS.

Description : Flora (1985: 165). See also Sparrius (2004: 30).

Chemistry : Psoromic acid (major), dimethylpsoromic acid (minor) and traces of an unidentified compound (Ralston 1999; Aptroot et al. 2003b).

N: Northland (Taipa, Tutamoe, Mangonui Bluff), Auckland (Waitakere Ra., Auckland Domain), South Auckland (Hunua Ra.), Taranaki (Puketi), Wellington (Ohau Gorge, Lower Hutt, Belmont, Colonial Knob). S: Nelson (Kaihoka Lakes), Marlborough (Chetwode Is, Ship Cove), Westland. On leaves of ferns (Santesson 1952) and of Agathis australis, Beilschmiedia tawa, Collospermum hastatum, Griselinia lucida, Marattia salicina, Metrosideros carminea, Podocarpus hallii, Rhopalostylis sapida (Sérusiaux 1984a; Bartlett 1988). Recently recorded from Victoria, Australia (Ralston 1999) and from Tasmania (McCarthy et al. 2001; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Australasian

Exsiccati : Vězda (1997c: No. 282).

Illustrations : Santesson (1952: 107, fig. 11); Malcolm & Galloway (1997: 99, 130); Australasian Lichenology 45 (1999: front cover); Malcolm & Malcolm (2000: 9, 78); Lumbsch et al. (2001: 42); Malcolm & Malcolm (2001: iii, v, 4, 32, 39, 48); Sparrius (2004: 113, fig. 14).

Enterographa bella is characterised by: the foliicolous habit; a green to greenish grey thallus; lirellae 0.5–0.8(–1.0) mm long; 7-septate ascospores 22–29 × 4–5 μm, with a halo 3–4 μm thick; and a photobiont forming very regular, radiate rows of cells (Sérusiaux 1984a: 296).