Flora of New Zealand Series

Lecidea rosellopallida Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 98 (1888).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight 26.4.79, WELT Herb. Knight Vol. 46A, p. 17!

Lecidea rosellopallida. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight 1882, ex Herb. J.M. Crombie, BM!

Thallus pale greenish or olivaceous-grey, thin, smooth, very minutely areolate-cracked, intersected and delimited by black or brown wavy lines, in patches or bands 2-5 cm diam. Apothecia pale pinkish or orange-brownish, sessile, plane or convex, 0.4- 1.2 mm diam., margins entire or crenulate, pale whitish, transparent when wet, or lacking. Hymenium 70-86 µm tall, pale straw-coloured. Hypothecium 300 µm thick, orange-yellow. Ascospores acicular, indistinctly 3-7-septate, 44-88 × 1-2 µm.

N: Wellington, on bark.

Endemic