Archer, Phaeographis and Phaeographina 
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Phaeographina species 
Phaeographina banksiae Mull. Arg. (Fig.3a, 4b) 
(Muller 1893: 59). 
Type: Victoria: Maffra, on Hymenanthera banksii, F.R.M. Wilson 879, 1892 (holo G; iso 
NSW). 
Thallus pale reddish-brown, thin, corticolous, surface smooth and slightly shiny; 
apothecia lirelliform, black, numerous, conspicuous, sessile to slightly immersed, lips 
closed, becoming slightly open, straight or curved, rarely branched, 1-3 mm long, 
0.2-0.3 mm wide, with a thin, evanescent thalline margin; proper exciple laterally 
carbonised; hymenium 125-150 pm tall; ascospores 8 per ascus, pale brown, ellipsoid, 
(20-)24-31(-39) x (10-)12-15(-17) pm, 4-6 x 2-3-locular. 
Chemistry: no compounds found. 
Also examined: Queensland: Upper Coomera, Wilson 1547, no date (NSW). 
New South Wales: Jenolan Caves, Wilson s.n., Sep 1897 (NSW). 
Fig. 3. Cross-sections of lirellae and ascospores. a, Phaeographina banksiae; b, P. echinocarpica; 
c, P. muelleri, lirellae: scale bar = 200 pm; ascospores: P. banksiae: scale bar = 20 pm, others: 
scale bar = 100 pm. 
