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Porina lamprocarpa (Stirt.) Müll.Arg.

P. lamprocarpa (Stirton) Müll. Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 92 (1894).

Verrucaria lamprocarpa Stirton, Proc. phil. Soc. Glasg. 10: 304 (1877).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington. J. Buchanan 1874, No 23/74, GLAM!

Thallus dark olivaceous-brown or red-brown, matt, smooth, continuous, rarely irregularly cracked. Perithecia solitary, scattered sparse, semi-immersed, ± in plane of substrate or very shallowly convex, black, shining or ± covered with periderm. Paraphyses filiform, discrete. Asci clavate, thin-walled 8-spored. Ascospores broadly fusiform with rounded or pointed ends, 7-9-septate, straight or slightly curved, 46-51 × 12 µm, wall to 2 µm thick, halonate.

N: Known only from the type collection.

Endemic

In Stirton's description (loc. cit.) spore measurements are given as 85-120 × 4 µm with spores being 10-20-septate. These results were not confirmed when the material was examined.

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