Melampilidium metabolum (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
Melaspilea metabola Nyl., Bull. Soc. linn. Normandie sér. 2, 2: 108 (1868).
Lecidea amphorodes Stirton, Rep. Trans. Glasgow Soc. Field Nat. 1: 19 (1873).
Lecidea amphorodes. Lectotype: New Zealand. Wellington, Tinakori Hills. J. Buchanan, 1873, BM.
Thallus pale yellowish-grey to glaucous brown, translucent when wet, thin, determinate or lacking, smooth or rimulose, to ± areolate-cracked. Apothecia scattered, 0.3-1.1 mm diam., red-brown to blackish, matt, epruinose, somewhat granular, prominent, plane at first with a smooth, entire, concolorous margin, becoming convex, subglobose, convoluted-wrinkled and immarginate with age. Hypothecium pale brownish to colourless. Ascospores large, 4-6-8 per ascus, oblong, 75-110 × 9-14 µm.
N: Wellington. Known only from bark (Cordyline, Hoheria) at Karori and from the Tinakori Hills, Wellington.
Palaeotropical
