Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Lecidea allotropa Nyl., Flora 48: 339 (1865).

≡Patellaria allotropa (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 65 (1894).

≡Bilimbia allotropa (Nyl.) Hellb., Bihang K. Sv. Vet.- Akad. Handl. 21 (3/13): 102 (1896).

=Lecidea deposita Nyl., Lich. Nov. Zel.: 91 (1888).

≡Patellaria deposita (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 65 (1894).

≡Bilimbia deposita (Nyl.) Hellb., Bihang K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21(3/13): 102 (1896).

≡Bacidia deposita (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Cat. lich. univ. 4 (1): 109 (1926).

Holotype: New Zealand. On mica slate rocks near Dunedin, Otago, xi.1861, Dr Lauder Lindsay, – H-NYL 19033. Isotype – E.[Lindsay's specimen in E was erroneously selected as lectotype (Galloway 1985a: 28), but as there is only one specimen in Nylander's herbarium with his annotations, this must be holotype].

Lecidea deposita. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], 22.iii.82, Charles Knight, ex Herb. J.M. Crombie – BM [fide Galloway (1985a: 28)]. Isolectotype ? WELT.

Description : Flora (1985: 28).

N: S: Throughout, mainly lowland and coastal, on clay banks or amongst mosses and on stones in roadside cuttings on consolidated soil.

Endemic

Illustration : Knight (1875a: pl. XXIII, fig. 14 – as Lecidea allotropa).

Bacidia allotropa is characterised by: the saxicolous/terricolous habit; the olivaceous or brownish, minutely granular or effuse thallus forming a thin film over the substratum; black, glossy apothecia; a blue-black epithecium; and oval to oblong-ellipsoidal, 3-septate ascospores, 10–13 × 3.5–5 μm.