Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Patellaria glomerulosa (C.Knight) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 66 (1894).

=Lecidea subbacillifera Nyl., Lich. Nov. Zel.: 95 (1888).

≡Patellaria subbacillifera (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 66 (1894).

≡Bacidia subbacillifera (Nyl.) Hellb., Bihang K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3/13): 100 (1896).

Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], Charles Knight – WELT, Herb. Knight Vol. 46A, p. 3.

Lecidea subbacillifera. Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], 1867, Charles Knight sub "Lecidea rhypoderma (Kn.)" – H-NYL 17394.

Description : Flora (1985: 30).

N: S: St: Widespread on bark of trees and shrubs (especially Cordyline and Melicytus), lowland and/or coastal.

Endemic

Illustration : Knight (1880: pl. XI, fig. 13).

Bacidia glomerulosa is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the dingy ochraceous-grey to dull olivaceous, scurfy thallus with granular isidia; brown-black to red-brown apothecia sunk in granular thalline crust; a massive (to 120 μm thick) yellow-brown hypothecium; and 3–7-septate ascospores, 30–40 × 1.5–2.5 μm.