Flora of New Zealand Series

=Pseudocyphellaria hirsutula D.J.Galloway & P.James in D.J. Galloway & M.J.A.Simpson, N. Z. J. Bot. 16: 521 (1978). nom. nud.

Holotype: New Zealand. South I., Canterbury, Boyle River near Lewis Pass, on bark of Nothofagus menziesii, 13.ix.1981, D.J. Galloway s.n. – CHR 381118. Isotype – BM.

Descriptions : Flora (1985: 445). See also Galloway (1988a: 156–157).

Chemistry : TLC−, all reactions negative.

N: South Auckland (Raglan) to Cook Strait. S: Nelson to Southland, both E and W of the Main Divide. St: (Oban to Port Pegasus) [map in Galloway (1988a: 158, fig. 75)]. An epiphyte of trees and shrubs in forest and scrub, in moist, cool, humid habitats, s.l. to 1200 m.

Endemic

Illustration : Galloway (1988a: 156, fig. 74).

Pseudocyphellaria gretae is characterised by: irregular rosettes formed of broadly rounded to sublinear lobes with entire to incised, crenulate, and often densely isidiate margins; a densely to sparsely tomentose upper surface, often with granular to coralloid tomentose isidia spreading as a thick, diffract crust; a white medulla; a green photobiont; a densely tomentose lower surface with minute, scattered white to pale-yellow pseudocyphellae; and no detectable chemistry.