Parmelia testacea
=Parmelia tenuirimis * P. rudior Nyl., Lich. Nov. Zel.: 25 (1888).
≡Parmelia rudior (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Cat. lich. univ. 6 (2): 198 (1929).
=Parmelia tenuirimis var. erimis Nyl., Flora 68: 610 (1885).
≡Parmelia erimis (Nyl.) Hillmann, Hedwigia 78: 259 (1939).
=Parmelia signifera f. pallidior Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 355 (1941).
Holotype: New Zealand. Prope Wellington, J. Buchanan 42 – BM. Isotype – WELT.
Parmelia tenuirimis *P. rudior. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco, 1865, Charles Knight 57 – H-NYL 35289 [fide Hale (1987: 49)].
Parmelia tenuirimis var. erimis. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco, 1867, Charles Knight 55 – H-NYL 35286 [fide Hale (1987: 49)].
Description : Flora (1985: 343).
Chemistry : Cortex K+ yellow; medulla K+ yellow→red or K−, C−, Pd+ orange; containing atranorin, chloroatranorin, salazinic acid (major), consalazinic acid (minor) with or without unidentified compound #27 (Hale 1987).
N: Northland (Waipoua Forest) to Wellington. S: Nelson (Lake Rotoiti) to Southland (Manapouri). St: Widespread as an epiphyte of Nothofagus (on trunks and also on canopy twigs) Known also from Tasmania (Galloway & Elix 1983; Hale 1987; Elix 1994m; Kantvilas & Jarman 1999; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).
Australian
Exsiccati : Vězda (1997h: No. 337).
Illustrations : Galloway & Elix 1983: 417, fig. 24); Hale (1987: 10, fig. 8B; 11, fig. 9B; 15, fig. 12D; 45, fig. 23D); Kantvilas & Jarman (1999: 101); Kantvilas et al. (2002: 115).
Parmelia testacea is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the adnate, sublinear to mostly subirregular lobes; marginal pseudocyphellae; the absence of soredia and isidia; the sparse to moderately dense rhizines that do not project beyond the lobe margins; small ascospores 11–15 × 7–10 μm; and the presence of salazinic acid with or without the presence of unidentified compound #27. Externally it is indistinguishable from P. subtestacea, which has echinocarpic acid rather than salazinic acid as the major medullary compound.
