Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: New Zealand. Sine loco. Charles Knight, rec'd 11/83, BM!

Thallus usually not apparent, granular, indeterminate, greyish-white or lacking. Apothecia numerous, scattered, 0.2-0.8 mm diam., solitary to confluent, appressed, black, epruinose, plane to convex, margins very thin, black, undulate. Epithecium brown-black, granular, 7-8.5 µm thick. Hymenium colourless. Hypothecium pale yellow-brown. Paraphyses dense, straight, 2 µm thick, capitate at apices to 5 µm thick. Ascospores oval-ellipsoid, 7-10.2 × 3.4-5.1 µm.

N: S: St: Throughout in fellfield, screes and rock slides, mainly alpine or subalpine, on pebbles and stones.

Endemic