Lecidea subsericea Zahlbr.
Type: New Zealand. Nelson, Lead Hills. On dead twigs of Dacrydium colensoi. J.S. Thomson (T 1988) ZA 664.
Thallus endophloeodal, often lacking, whitish, silky, effuse. Apothecia conspicuous, scattered, sessile, rounded to irregular-flattened, constricted at base, 1 mm diam., or less, black, matt, shining, carbonaceous, plane to convex, margins very thin, entire or crenulate, concolorous with disc. Epithecium olive-brown, 13 µm thick. Hymenium pale olive, straw-coloured, 60-80 µm tall. Hypothecium obscure, brownish. Paraphyses conglutinate, dense, capitate, olive-brownish at apices, to 5-6 µm thick. Ascospores bacillar, 6.8-10.2 × 1.7-2.5(-3.4) µm.
N: S: St: Throughout, mainly subalpine on dead or decorticated wood.
Endemic
