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Buellia rorida Hellb.

B. rorida Hellbom, Bihang K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3) 13: 116 (1896).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Napier, on limestone. S. Berggren 166 B2, August 1874, S!

Thallus continuous to areolate, grey-white, smooth to minutely roughened, areolae angular, 0.2-0.5(-1.0) mm diam., saxicolous. Apothecia sessile, scattered, plane to convex, white-pruinose at first then matt, black, carbonaceous and glabrous, margins concolorous with thallus, soon disappearing. Epithecium pale yellow-brown. Hypothecium brownish to yellow-brown. Paraphyses swollen and yellow-brown at apices. Ascospores biseriate, oval to broadly ellipsoid, apices pointed or rounded, straight, not constricted at septum, 12-15 × 5.1-9 µm.

N: Napier. Known only from the type collection but probably more widespread on limestone.

Endemic

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