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108 BRIAN JOHN COPPINS<br />

6a (5b) Pycnidial wall and stalk dark purple-brown, K-l- dark green. Mesoconidia 3-4-4-3X<br />

l-2-l-6)u,m 29. M. nigella (p. 163)<br />

6b Pycnidial wall dark olivaceous, K— ; stalk fuscous or reddish-brown, K— 7<br />

7a (6b) Mesoconidia 3-5-4-8X 1-1-5 /xm. On bryophytes, shaded rocks and stones or exposed<br />

roots, rarely on lignum 6. M. botryoides (p. 118)<br />

7b Mesoconidia2-6-3-6xl-l-3/Lim. Onlignum 24. M. melaeniza (p. 155)<br />

8a (4b) Thallus <strong>of</strong> pale to dark green goniocysts, 12-40 /x.m diam; goniocysts containing purple<br />

oily substance in K. Pycnidia brown with white tomentum. Mesoconidia (4-)4-5(-6)x<br />

1-3-1-7/xm 15. M. hedlundii (p. 135)<br />

8b Thallus indistinctly areolate or rimose, or endoxylic, without goniocysts, K— . Pycnidia<br />

without tomentum 9<br />

9a (8b) Pycnidia whitish, C-l- red (gyrophoric acid) . Mesoconidia<br />

4—6 x 1-1-5 /im<br />

35. M. pycnidiophora (p. 179)<br />

9b Pycnidia C— , whitish or reddish brown 10<br />

10a (9b) Pycnidia whitish, <strong>of</strong>ten branched. Mesoconidia 6-8x1-1-8 ^tm. Usually on bark, in<br />

oceanic areas 37. M. stipitata (p. 182)<br />

10b Pycnidia reddish brown, rarely branched. Mesoconidia 3-5-4-5 x 1-2-1-6 fim. On lignum in<br />

boreal regions 3. M. anterior (p. 112)<br />

11a (3b) With whitish, cushion-like, apo<strong>the</strong>cia-like sporodochia c. 0-1-0-25 mm diam, bearing<br />

oblong-ellipsoid macroconidia 6-10x2-3 /xm (immersed, inconspicuous pycnidia containing<br />

mesoconidia 4-5-3x1-2-1-5 /am may also be present). All parts C- (t.l.c: nil). On<br />

lignum or decaying bark <strong>of</strong> old stumps 1. M. adnata (p. 108)<br />

lib Sporodochia absent . Thallus and/or pycnidia C -I- red (gyrophoric acid) or C - (t . 1 . c . : 'prasina<br />

unknowns') 12<br />

12a (lib) Thallus <strong>of</strong> pale to dark green (sometimes K-l- violet) goniocysts 12-60 /x,m; pycnidia, if<br />

present, 30-80 yam diam containing ei<strong>the</strong>r (5-)5 -5-8x0-7-1 /xm microconidia, or<br />

(3-5-)4-6 X 1-2-1-7 ^tm mesoconidia. All parts C- (t.l.c. : 'prasina unknowns')<br />

34. M. prasina (p. 173)<br />

12b Thallus areolate, or scurfy (invaded by dematiaceous hyphae and foreign algae), or ±<br />

endoxylic; thallus and/or pycnidia usually C-l- red (gyrophoric acid) ; sometimes with curved<br />

or flexuose macroconidia 13<br />

13a (12b) With numerous pycnidia containing mesoconidia, 3-5-4-5x1-3-2 /xm, <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

extruded as conspicuous white blobs; in addition, pycnidia containing microconidia<br />

(4-)4-5-6(-6-5)x 0-7-1 /xm, or curved macroconidia 12-12x1 /xm, sometimes present;<br />

pycnidia walls with pale olivaceous pigment, K-l- violet. Usually on lignum, commonly on<br />

worked timber 11. M. denigrata(p. 127)<br />

13b Pycnidia usually with longer, curved or flexuose macroconidia; smaller pycnidia with microconidia<br />

sometimes present; mesoconidia unknown; pycnidial walls hyaline or greenish, K—<br />

On various substrata, rarely on worked timber 14<br />

14a (13b) Macroconidia curved or hamate, 21-40x1-1-5 /xm. Microconidia (5-)6-7(-7-7)x<br />

0-4-0-7 IX,. On various substrata but most commonly encountered without apo<strong>the</strong>cia on<br />

bark <strong>of</strong> old trees (especially Quercus) in old woodlands 33. M. peliocarpa (p. 169)<br />

14b Macroconidia flexuose, 50-110x1 ixm. Microconidia (3-8-)4-5x0-5-0-7 /xm. Seen without<br />

apo<strong>the</strong>cia on shaded lignum in woodland, and over bryophytes in open montane situations<br />

1. Micarea adnata Coppins, sp. nov.<br />

(Figs 7A, 36-37; Map 1)<br />

The species<br />

7. M. cinerea (p. 121)<br />

Thallus effusus, tenuis, ± laevis vel furfuraceo-granulosus, pallide griseo-viridis, plerumque nonnihil<br />

cereus. Algae cellulis 4—7 fxm diam. Apo<strong>the</strong>cia pallide eburnea vel straminea vel demum pallide rufescen-<br />

tia, immarginata, adnata, primum planiuscula mox convexa, 0-2-0-4(-0-6) mm diam, interdum coalescentia<br />

in fasciculosos noduliformes ad 2 mm diam. Hymenium 35-40 ^im altum, ± hyalinum. Ascosporae<br />

ellipsoideae, ovoideae, oblongo-ellipsoideae, oblongo-ovoideae vel oblongae, (O-)l-septatae, 9-16x<br />

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