Leproplaca chrysodeta (Vain. ex Räsänen) J.R.Laundon
Placodium chrysodetum Vainio ex Räsänen, Annls Acad. Sci. fenn. A 34 (4): 113 (1931).
Thallus irregularly delimited, forming scattered granules at first which later form irregularly scattered patches, at length converging, forming a thick, often areolate crust, brownish yellow or greyish-yellow, margins indefinite, without lobes. Surface composed entirely of a mass of pulverulent spherical granules, 0.1 mm diam., cortex absent. Chemistry: K+ violet-red, C-. Parietin.
S: Canterbury (Weka Pass) on limestone rocks, first collected by P. W. James (September, 1981).
?Bipolar
