Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Parmelia subtiliacea Nyl., Flora 68: 614 (1885).

≡Pseudoparmelia subtiliacea (Nyl.) Hale, Phytologia 28: 191 (1974).

Description : Flora (1985: 463 – as Pseudoparmelia subtiliacea). See also Elix (1994d: 29).

Chemistry : Cortex K+ yellow; medulla K−, C−, KC−, Pd−; containing atranorin, chloroatranorin, ±caperatic acid and with or without unidentified fatty acids.

N: South Auckland (Kaimanawa Ra.) to Wellington. S: Canterbury (Banks Peninsula, Hooker Valley), Otago (Earnslaw Burn). On twigs in canopy branches of forest trees or on subalpine shrubs. Still poorly known and collected in New Zealand. Known also from Australia (McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Australasian

Illustration : Hale (1976: 51, fig. 17D).

Canoparmelia subtiliacea is characterised by: the numerous apothecia; the absence of soredia and isidia; negative chemical reactions in the medulla and the presence of fatty acids.