Flora of New Zealand Series

X. neotinctina (Elix) Elix & J.Johnst. in J.A. Elix, J. Johnston & P.M. Armstrong, Bull. Br. Mus. ( Nat. Hist. ) Bot. 15 (3): 297 (1986).

≡Parmelia neotinctina Elix, Austral. J. Bot. 29: 363 (1981).

Description : Flora (1985: 617 – as Xanthoparmelia tinctina).

Chemistry : Cortex K−; medulla K+ yellow→red, C−, KC+ red, Pd + orange; containing salazinic (tr.), norstictic (major), ±connorstictic and usnic acids.

N: Northland (Three Kings Is, Poor Knights Is), Auckland (Piha, Karekare), South Auckland (Wairongomai Stream, Te Aroha, Mt Maunganui). S: Nelson (St Arnaud Ra. – Parachute Rocks, West Bay, Lake Rotoiti), Canterbury (Port Hills, Christchurch, Rangitata Gorge, Mt Peel), Otago (Forgotten River, Lindis River near Cluden, Alexandra, Head of Verterburn, Waikouaiti Reservoir, the Nuggets), Southland (Pahia Point, Astornomer's Point, Dusky Sound). On rocks, mainly coastal and lowland, rarely subalpine (then associating with X. mougeotina). Known also from coastal, montane and subalpine habitats in Australia and Tasmania (Elix 1994s: 270; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Australasian

Illustrations : Elix (1981b: 364, fig. 11; 1994s: 269. fig. 101B); Hale (1990: 153, fig. 54D); Kantvilas et al. (2002: 7, 218).

Xanthoparmelia neotinctina is characterised by: the saxicolous habit; the presence of dense, cylindrical, coralloid isidia; a black lower surface; and the presence of norstictic and ±salazinic acids in the medulla.