Enterographa subserialis
Synonyms
Chiodecton subseriale Nyl
Family
Roccellaceae
Flora category
Lichen – Native
Endemic taxon
No
Endemic genus
No
Endemic family
No
Structural class
Lichens - Crustose
Current conservation status
2018 | Data Deficient | Qualifiers: SO
Brief description
Characterised by the corticolous habit; a pale-grey to pale red-brown, areolate thallus delimited by a black, marginal prothallus and forming mosaics on smooth bark; minute, punctiform ascomata with a dark-brown disc, arranged in thread-like lines; and 5–7-septate ascospores, 25–30 × 4–5 μm.
Distribution
North Island: Far North (Te Paki), Auckland (Piha). South Island.
Still very poorly collected.
Known also from Cuba, Socotra, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and New Caledonia.
Habitat
Throughout, on bark of introduced, deciduous trees in parks and gardens.
Detailed description
Thallus olive-green to grey or pale red-brown, smooth or minutely uneven, somewhat waxy, areolate, delimited by a thin, black, uneven, marginal prothallus, often forming coalescing mosaics, corticolous, rarely saxicolous. Lirellae minute, innate, to very slightly raised, round to elongate 0.2-0.8 mm long and to 0.3 mm broad, often confluent or irregularly arranged or in thread-like lines, disc brown-black, immarginate, impressed. Ascospores elongate, 3-7-septate, 25-30 × 4-5 µm.
Substrate
Corticolous, saxicolous
Attribution
Fact sheet prepared by Marley Ford (23 January 2024). Brief description, Distribution, Habitat, and Features sections copied from Galloway (1985) & Galloway (2007).
References and further reading
Galloway D.J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Wellington: PD Hasselberg, Government Printer. 662 pp.
Galloway D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. 2nd edition. Lincoln, Manaaki Whenua Press. 2261 pp.