Lecanora blanda Nyl.
L. blanda f. crustosa Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 339 (1941).
Lecidea myoplaca Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 311 (1941).
L. blanda f. crustosa. Holotype: New Zealand. Otago, Mt Maungatua. J.S. Thomson ZA 293, W!
Lecidea myoplaca. Lectotype: New Zealand. Otago, Horse Range near Dunback, 600 m on rock. J.S. Thomson (T 1428) ZA 3700, OTA 029441!
Thallus roughened-granular, greyish-white, areolate-cracked, areolae minute, convex, subangular to subirregular, in patches 2-5(-10) cm diam. Apothecia sessile, crowded to scattered, round to irregular-deformed through mutual pressure, 0.2-2.5 mm diam., ± plane or undulate, disc brownish or brown-red, densely or finely grey-pruinose, margins persistent, entire, flexuose, or sinuous-undulate, concolorous with thallus, paler or ± pinkish. Epithecium granular, grey-brown or yellowish-brown 10-13 µm thick. Hymenium colourless 110-150 µm tall, pale yellowish. Asci clavate. Ascospores 2-3 seriate, broadly ellipsoid, apices rounded, straight, 13-15 × 6.8-9 µm. Chemistry: Atranorin, salazinic (K+ yellow → red) and norstictic (tr.) acids.
S: On coastal and alpine rocks throughout, mainly east of the Main Divide, s.l. to 1500 m.
Cosmopolitan
