Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Cladonia wilsonii A.W.Archer, Muelleria 5: 274 (1984).

Description : Similar in all respects to C. sulcata but differing in containing stictic acid instead of psoromic acid.

Chemistry : K+ weak yellow, KC−, Pd+ weak yellow; containing atranorin, bourgeanic, stictic, constictic (tr.), cryptostictic (tr.) and norstictic (tr.) acids.

N: Northland (Three Kings Is, Karikari Peninsula, Waipoua Forest), Auckland (Waitakere Ra.). S: Nelson (Dun Mountain). On soil. Also in Australia and Tasmania (Archer & Bartlett 1986; Archer 1992b; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Australasian

Cladonia sulcata var. wilsonii is characterised by: the grooved, splitting podetia; and the presence of bourgeanic and stictic acids.