Pertusaria sorodes Stirt.
P. subcommunis Nyl., Lich. N.Z.: 67 (1888).
Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington. J. Buchanan, BM!
P. subcommunis. Lectotype: New Zealand. Westland, Greymouth. R. Helms 268 1886, H-NYL 22950!
Thallus pale olive-green or, greenish-grey to fawnish-green or yellowish-green, wrinkled-plicate to verrucose or papillate to areolate-cracked, matt, ± waxy, smooth in parts, in irregular patches, 2-5 cm diam., delimited at margins by a thin, wavy black line of prothallus, margins slightly plicate-radiate, corticolous. Fertile verrucae concolorous with thallus, raised, irregular, locally fused in deformed groups, 2-4(-8) mm diam. Apothecia immersed, 2-4(-8-10) per verruca, ostioles minute, punctiform, black or brown, surface of verrucae slightly puckered at ostiole, margins rounded, irregular, not splitting. Asci 2-spored. Ascospores broadly ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid or oval, both ends round or one end pointed (120-)160-220 × 43-70 µm, wall 13-17 µm thick, radial zonation of inner wall conspicuous. Chemistry: TLC 2 unidentified compounds, one a xanthone charring UV+ citrine yellow, and ?perlatolic acid.
N: S: Widespread on bark of lowland forest trees and shrubs.
Australasian
P. sorodes is the Southern Hemisphere counterpart species of P. pertusa and is probably also present in eastern Australia and Tasmania.
