Siphula foliacea
Description : Flora (1985: 525).
Chemistry : TLC−, all reactions negative.
N: South Auckland (Moehau, Coromandel Ra., Kauaeranga Gorge), Wellington (Mokai Patea Ruahine Ra., Ruapehu, Waiopehu, Tararua Ra.). S: Nelson (Denniston Plateau, Mt Augustus, Stockton Plateau), Canterbury (Arthur's Pass, Mt Peel), Otago (Mt Brewster Haast Pass, Wills Valley, Stag Pass, Forgotten River, Fohn Saddle, Park Pass, Ocean Peak Humboldt Mts, N Branch Routeburn, North Col, Sugarloaf Saddle, Kea Basin, The Remarkables, Hector Mts, Pisa Ra., Old Man Ra., Garvie Mts, Rock and Pillar Ra.), Southland (Doubtful Sound, Cascade Cove Dusky Sound, Snag Burn Murchison Mts, Lake Wapiti). On damp, alpine, gravelly or sandy soils or in peat, often inundated, among mosses, 305–2045 m. Known also from Tasmania (Bratt 1972; Kantvilas 1994b, 2002a; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).
Australasian
Siphula foliacea is characterised by: the terricolous habit; thin, fragile, rather broad lobes; surface pale buff-green or yellowish fawn to creamish fawn, never suffused reddish at margins or apices, texture roughened to verrucose-areolate (×10 lens) on one side and ±smooth on the other; and no secondary compounds. The current name for this taxon is Parasiphula foliacea (D.J.Galloway) Kantvilas & Grube ube & Kantvilas 2006: 246).
