Parmelia cunninghamii
=Parmelia (Hypotrachyna) brownii C.W.Dodge, Nova Hedwigia 19: 449 (1971) ["1970"].
Description : Flora (1985: 338–339).
Chemistry : Cortex K+ yellow; medulla K+ yellow→ red, C−, Pd + orange; containing atranorin, chloroatranorin, salazinic acid (major), consalazinic acid (minor) and ±lobaric acid (Elix 1994m: 116).
S: Nelson to Southland, mainly coastal, though common locally inland E of the Main Divide from Lewis Pass to Fiordland. St: Sn: A: C: Ant.: From s.l. to 1000 m in areas of moderately high rainfall – most commonly epiphytic on trees and shrubs in open situations, rarely on rocks. Also in SE Australia and southern South America (Galloway & Elix 1983: 401; Hale 1987: 23; Elix 1994m; Galloway & Quilhot 1999; Kantvilas et al. 2002; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).
Austral
Illustrations : Galloway & Elix (1983: 400, fig. 3 (1983); Hale (1987: 4, fig. 2D; 15, fig. 12B; 20, fig. 13D); Elix (1994m: 113, fig. 49D); Kantvilas et al. (2002: 100).
Parmelia cunninghamii is characterised by: the firm, shiny thallus; the well-developed linear, marginal soralia and salazinic acid in the medulla.
