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Lichens A-Pac (2007) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens - Revised Second Edition A-Pac
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Metrosideros sublivens

M. sublivens (Nyl.) D.J.Galloway, N. Z. J. Bot. 42: 116 (2004).

≡Lecidea sublivens Nyl., Lich. Nov. Zel.: 84 (1888).

≡Patellaria sublivens (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 64 (1894).

≡Biatorina sublivens (Nyl.) Hellb., Bihang K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3/13): 107 (1896).

≡Catillaria sublivens (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Cat. lich. univ. 4 (1): 24 (1926).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco (probably Wellington), 1867, Charles Knight 111 – H-NYL 18234 [fide Galloway (1985a: 80)]. Isolectotype – ? WELT.

Description : Flora (1985: 80).

N: Wellington (Kapiti I.).

Endemic

Megalaria sublivens is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the pale greyish white or olivaceous, continuous to areolate, to wrinkled or verrucose thallus, delimited by a wavy, black, prothallus; plane to subconvex, black apothecia, 0.2–1.0 mm diam; and oval–ellipsoidal to fabiform ascospores, 15–20.5 × 5–6.5 μm.

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