Flora of New Zealand Series

Thallus crustose, epi- or endophloeodal, ecorticate or with a cortex of periclinal hyphae. Photobiont green, Trentepohlia. Apothecia lirelline, lirellae immersed to sessile, elongate or branched, rarely short and rounded, lips connivent or open, entire or sulcate. Ascospores 4-8 per ascus, brown, fusiform to ellipsoid or subcylindrical, septate.

Phaeographis is a cosmopolitan genus of c. 200 described species, three of which occur in New Zealand [Hayward N.Z. J. Bot. 15: 573-576 (1977)]. For typification of synonyms see Hayward (loc. cit.) .