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Type: Australia. Queensland: Forrest Beach, 15 km SE of Ingham, 18°42'S, 145°18'E, alt. 
2 m, on Alphitonia, H. Streimann 28868, June 1984 (holo CANB). 
Thallus pale greenish fawn, corticolous, surface subtuberculate and shiny; apothecia 
lirelliform, conspicuous, scattered, straight, curved or sinuous, sometimes branched, 
sessile, open, often with conspicuous thalline margins, 1-3 mm long, 0.4-0.5 mm wide; 
disc fine white pruinose; proper exciple absent; hymenium 120-150 pm tall; 
ascospores 8 per ascus, irregularly 2-seriate, ellipsoid, pale brown, 40-60 pm long, 
(12-)15-17 pm wide, 10-14 x 2-3 locular. 
Chemistry: no lichen compounds found. 
Distribution: endemic; known only from one specimen from north-eastern 
Queensland. 
Notes: Pliaeographina litoralis is characterised by conspicuous lirellae with pruinose 
epithecia and the absence of lichen compounds. The species resembles Phaeographis 
dendroides but that species has smaller locular ascospores and contains stictic acid. The 
new species is so far known only from the type specimen. 
Etymology: The epithet litoralis, pertaining to the sea shore, refers to the type locality. 
Forest Beach. 
Phaeographina montagnei (Bosch) Miill. Arg. (Fig. Ik, 3e) 
(Muller 1882: 399). 
Graphis montagnei Bosch, 
(van den Bosch 1855: 472) 
Type: Indonesia. Java, s.loc., F.W. Junghuhn 112 ( syntype L, fide Nakanishi 1977). 
Thallus dull green, thin, corticolous, surface smooth and somewhat shiny; apothecia 
lirelliform, numerous, conspicuous, scattered, initially fissurine, becoming sessile with 
a conspicuous thalline margin, straight, curved or sinuous, rarely branched, 1—5(—8) mm 
long, 0.5-1.0 mm wide; proper exciple completely carbonised, concealed in thalline 
margin; hymenium pale red, 200-300 pm tall; disc bright red; ascospores 1 per ascus, 
ellipsoid, initially hyaline, becoming pale brown, 125—155(—175) pm long, 35-45(-50) pm 
wide, muriform. 
Chemistry: no lichen compounds found; isohypocrelline, a red perylene quinone 
(Mathey et al. 1994) is reported to be present (Staiger & Kalb 1999). 
Distribution: occurs in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia, and in Australia, in 
Queensland and New South Wales and also on Norfolk Island, where it is not 
uncommon. The only reported substrates are Citrus, Elaeodendron and Nestigia on 
Norfolk Island. 
Notes: Phaeographina montagnei is characterised by the conspicuous lirellae with bright 
red discs, the large ascospores and the absence of lichen compounds other than the red 
pigment; the species is unlikely to be confused with any other Phaeographina species. 
Montagne (1856: 346) descibed the species as "species splendidissima cum nulla 
confundenda". The species is illustrated in colour by Yoshimura, Plate 44, Fig. 469 
(Yoshimura 1979). 
Specimens examined: Queensland: Mount Stewart, 10 km SSW of Townsville, Streimann 31305, 
Jul 1984 (CANB); Mount Fox, 43 km S of Ingham, Elix 20354, Jun 1986 (CANB); Clarke Range, 
46 km SSW of Proserpine, Elix 20902, Jun 1986 (CANB).New South Wales: Broken Head, 8 km S 
of Byron Bay, Archer G 270, Novl998 (NSW).Norfolk Island. Mt Pitt Reserve, just S of the summit 
of Mt Pitt, Elix 18807, Decl984 (CANB); ibid., track at end of Selwyn Pine Road, Elix 18446, Dec 
1984(CANB); ibid., Filmy Fem Trail, Streimann 32195, Dec 1984 (CANB); track between Mt Pitt and 
Mt Bates, Elix 27385, Jun 1992 (CANB). 
