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Lichens (1985) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens
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Phyllopsora microdactyla (C.Knight) D.J.Galloway

P. microdactyla (Knight) D. Galloway, N.Z. J. Bot. 21: 196 (1983).

Lecidea microdactyla Knight, T.N.Z.I. 12: 375 (1880).

L. carpodeti Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 308 (1941).

Lectotype: New Zealand. ?Wellington. Charles Knight, BM!

Lecidea carpodeti. Lectotype: New Zealand. Otago, Boyd's Bush near Dunedin. On Carpodetus serratus. J.S. Thomson (T492) ZA566, CHR 347017!

Thallus pale greenish-grey, floccose-coralline, granular to microphylline, squamules digitate, many resembling isidia, c. 0.1 mm wide, continuous or ± diffract-areolate centrally, on a pale, byssoid prothallus. Apothecia scattered, solitary, yellowish-brown, convex. Ascospores 8 per ascus, biseriate, cylindrical-ellipsoid (10-)15-21 × 3.4 µm.

N: Wellington. S: Otago (Dunedin).

Endemic

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