Flora of New Zealand Series

=Calicium abietinum var. australe Js.Murray, Trans. Roy. Soc. N.Z. 88: 180 (1960).

Calicium abietinum var. australe. Lectotype: New Zealand. Southland, Forest Hill, "on old matai wood, 1/54, 3474". Herb. Murray – OTA [fide Tibell (1987: 19)].

Description : Flora (1985: 55). See also Tibell (1987: 20).

Chemistry : TLC−, all reactions negative.

N: South Auckland (Te Aroha to Taupo), Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, Wellington (Kaimanawa Ra. to Tararua Ra.). S: Nelson (Tasman Mts to Springs Junction), Marlborough (Mt Fyffe), Canterbury (Arthur's Pass to Mt Peel), Otago (Merton to Owaka), Southland (Forest Hill, Longwood Ra., Clifden). Widely distributed in cool temperate areas, growing on lignum in humid areas of moderate to high light, often on wooden fenceposts at forest fringes. Common also on lignum of Nothofagus, Beilschmiedia tawa, Fuchsia excorticata, Leptospermum scoparium and Podocarpus totara. Known from Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa, Japan and Australia (Goward 1999; McCarthy 2003c, 2006; Nimis & Martellos 2003; Tibell & Thor 2003; Hermansson & Pystina 2004; Tibell & Ryan 2004a).

Cosmopolitan

Illustrations : Keissler (1938: 510, figs 145, 146; 629, fig. 179); Galløe (1972: 58, pls 46, 189); Tibell (1987: 20, fig. 1; 1999c: 82); Goward (1999: 71, fig. 10A); Dobson (2000: 83).

Calicium abietinum is characterised by: its epruinose apothecia, the black to often brownish to olivaceous stalks, and the large, minutely warted spores.