Lecanora subglaucodea (Kremp.) Zahlbr.
Lecidea subglaucodea Krempelh., Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26: 456 (1876).
Lecanora rubrocincta Stirton, Proc. phil. Soc. Glasg. 10: 295 (1877).
L. albidorufa Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 340 (1941).
L. dasycarpa Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 341 (1941).
Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight. M - not seen.
L. rubrocincta. Lectotype: New Zealand. Ad saxa prope Wellington J. Buchanan 70/74, GLAM!
L. albidorufa. Lectotype: New Zealand. Otago, Kyeburn, on rock. J.S. Thomson (T 2331) A 45, CHR 345830!
L. dasycarpa. Lectotype: New Zealand. Otago, Abbott's Hill near Dunedin, on rock 300 m. J.S. Thomson (T 1692) ZA 559, CHR 160286!
Thallus conspicuous, creamish-buff or dingy white or pinkish, or rusty brown-whitish, matt, slightly roughened, continuous, smooth, finely areolate-cracked, in parts ± eroded, areolae angular, plane 1-2 mm diam., in spreading patches, 2-6(-10) cm diam. Apothecia innate to sessile, solitary to 1-5(-10) crowded together, 0.1-1.5 mm diam., subconcave to plane to subconvex, rounded to angular-irregular through mutual pressure, undulate to ± irregular, disc pale to dark red-brown, epruinose or with a faint, white pruina in parts, margins entire to crenulate, concolorous with thallus. Epithecium granular, brownish, 5-7 µm thick. Hymenium colourless or pale straw-coloured, 50-60 µm tall. Paraphyses simple, dense, 1.5 µm thick, apices not capitate. Ascospores oval to ellipsoid 10-14 × 6-9 µm. Chemistry: Cortex K+ yellow (r) red, KC+ red, Pd+ orange. Norstictic and salazinic (tr.) acids, atranorin and chloratranorin.
N: Wellington. S: Canterbury (Mt Peel), Otago (Keyburn and Abbotts Hill near Dunedin). On subalpine to alpine rocks, probably more widely distributed.
Endemic
