taxonomic status

The holotype consists of three minute scraps of bark with only two small lirellae present. In the treatment of New Zealand names in the family Graphidaceae and Opegraphaceae, Glenys Hayward commented "The type cannot be characterized or compared with any New Zealand species because the holotype is fragmentary" (Hayward 1977), a psoition I also endorse. From the protologue, though, it seems most likely that the material is referable to O. [Opegrapha] agelaeoides Nyl., a widespread species known from the Three Kings Islands to Stewart Island. (D.J. Galloway, 2004)

Galloway D.J. 2004: Notes on some lichen names recorded from the Snares Islands, southern New Zealand. Australasian Lichenology 55: 21–25.

editorial

The holotype consists of three minute scraps of bark with only two small lirellae present. In the treatment of New Zealand names in the family Graphidaceae and Opegraphaceae, Glenys Hayward commented "The type cannot be characterized or compared with any New Zealand species because the holotype is fragmentary" (Hayward 1977), a psoition I also endorse. From the protologue, though, it seems most likely that the material is referable to O. [Opegrapha] agelaeoides Nyl., a widespread species known from the Three Kings Islands to Stewart Island. (D.J. Galloway, 2004)

Galloway D.J. 2004: Notes on some lichen names recorded from the Snares Islands, southern New Zealand. Australasian Lichenology 55: 21–25.