Flora of New Zealand Series

Description : Flora (1985: 413).

N: Wellington (Kitchener Park Feilding). On leaves of Podocarpus spicatus. First collected here by G. Einar & Greta Du Rietz in 1926. Known from the Caribbean, Brazil, Paraguay, East Africa, Asia (Santesson 1952; Lücking 1992). Recently recorded from Tasmania, Queensland, Christmas I., New Caledonia, and Taiwan (Lücking & Kalb 2001; McCarthy 200le: 398; 2001f; 2003c; 2006; McCarthy et al. 2001; Aptroot 2003a). A detailed geographical listing is given in McCarthy (2003d: 23–24).

Pantropical

Illustrations : Aptroot & Sipman (1993: 18, fig. 4); Lücking (1992: 62, fig. 18G).

Porina atrocoerulea is characterised by: the foliicolous habit; small, blackish, globose perithecia, the sides usually partly overgrown by thalline tissue, and the apices sometimes pilose; and small to medium-sized, 7-septate ascospores, 22–42 × 3.5–7 μm.