Lichens (1985) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens
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Catillaria bouteillei (Desm.) Zahlbr.

C. bouteillei (Desmaz.) Zahlbr., Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien 111: 262 (1902).

Parmelia bouteillei Desmaz., Annls Sci. nat. Bot. sér. 3, 8: 191 (1847).

Thallus continuous or partly eroding, farinose to minutely granular-sorediate, rarely almost smooth, bluish-white to bluish-grey, sometimes greenish, foliicolous, to 4 mm diam. Apothecia slightly constricted at base, 0.1-0.3 mm diam., rather irregular, disc pale flesh-coloured to yellowish with a slight reddish tinge, without pruina or with a thin white pruina, plane or subconvex, margins thin, white. Ascospores biseriate, oblong to ovoid, sometimes slightly constricted at septum, 10-18 × 3-6 µm.

N: Wellington (Kitchener Park, Totara Reserve). On leaves of Asplenium adiantoides and Podocarpus totara.

Cosmopolitan

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