Flora of New Zealand Series

=Lecidea subpineti Kremp., Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26: 454 (1876).

=Lecidea glandulosa C.Knight, Trans. N. Z. Inst. 12: 376 (1880).

=Lecidea interversa Nyl., Lich. Nov. Zel.: 79 (1888).

=Lecidea intervertens Nyl. Lich. Nov. Zel. : 79 (1888). 

Type : New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], Charles Knight – M.

Lecidea subpineti. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], Charles Knight – M 123–80/4.

Lecidea glandulosa. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], Charles Knight ex Herb. J.M. Crombie – BM.

Lecidea interversa. Holotype. New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], 1867, Charles Knight 87a – H-NYL 20457.

Lecidea intervertens. Type: New Zealand. As for L. glandulosa above – BM.

Description : Flora (1985: 225).

Chemistry : TLC−, all reactions negative.

N: Wellington. S: Otago (Mt Cargill). Known also from Tasmania and Victoria in Australia (Kantvilas 1994b; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Australasian

Illustrations : Knight (1880: pl. XIII, fig. 41 – as Lecidea glandulosa).

Lecidea canorufescens is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the olive-green, scurfy–areolate to granular–arachnoid or effuse thallus; scattered to numerous, plane to subconvex, waxy, orange to red-brown apothecia; and ellipsoidal ascospores, 8.5–12(–16) × 4–8 μm. As indicated above, this species is not correctly accommodated in Lecidea s. str.