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Lichens (1985) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens
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Leptorhaphis beloniza (Stirt.) Hellb.

L. beloniza (Stirton) Hellbom, Bihang K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3) 13: 139 (1896).

Verrucaria beloniza Stirton, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot. 14: 472 (1875).

V. macrocyrtospora Knight, T.N.Z.I. 15: 355 (1883).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Wellington. J. Buchanan 160, GLAM! On bark of Cordyline australis, possibly a widespread but overlooked species.

Verrucaria macrocyrtospora. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco (prob. Wellington). Charles Knight, WELT - not seen.

Thallus obscure yellowish, blotchy or disappearing. Ascocarps clustered within cracks in substrate, sessile or semi-immersed, globose, discrete, or clustered together, black, carbonaceous, 0.2-0.4 mm diam., subnitid, prominent, rather wrinkled, ostiole poriform, rather irregular, minute. Ascospores 4-8 per ascus, acicular, slightly curved, 13-septate, apices blunt, 100-160 × 3-5 µm. Pseudoparaphyses long, irregular, anastomosing.

N: Wellington and probably more widespread.

Endemic

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