Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Sticta filicina var. latifrons (A.Rich.) Mont., Annls Sci. nat. Bot. sér. 3, 18: 309 (1852).

≡Lobaria latifrons (A.Rich.) Hellb., Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3/13): 34 (1896).

=Sticta menziesii Hook.f. & Taylor in J.D. Hooker, Fl. antarct. 1: 198 (1845).

≡Sticta latifrons var. menziesii (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab. in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Nov. Zel. 2: 277 (1855).

≡Sticta filicina var. menziesii (Hook.f. & Taylor) Nyl., Mém. Soc. Sci. nat. Cherbourg 5: 102 (1858) ["1857"].

≡Lobaria latifrons var. menziesii (Hook.f. & Taylor) Hellb., Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21(3/13): 40 (1896).

=Sticta latifrons var. ochroleuca C.Bab. in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Nov. Zel. 2: 277 (1855).

≡Sticta menziesii var. ochroleuca (C.Bab.) Kremp., Reise Novara Bot. 1: 119 (1870).

=Sticta menziesii var. palmata Kremp., Reise Novara Bot. 1: 118 (1870).

=Sticta menziesii var. dissecta Kremp., Reise Novara Bot. 1: 119 (1870).

≡Sticta latifrons var. dissecta (Kremp.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2: 35 (1894).

≡Sticta latifrons var. menziesii f. dissecta (Kremp.) Stizenb., Flora 81: 125 (1895).

≡Lobaria latifrons var. dissecta (Kremp.) Hellb., Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3/13): 40 (1896).

=Sticta inernectens Nyl., Lich. Nov. Zel.: 32 (1888).

≡Lobaria internectens (Nyl.) Hellb., Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3/13): 40 (1896).

=Sticta nervosa Taylor ex C.W.Dodge, Nova Hedwigia 19: 469 (1971) ["1970"].

=Sticta philipsonii C.W.Dodge, Nova Hedwigia 19: 470 (1971) ["1970"].

Lectotype: New Zealand. Astrolabe Harbour [near Kaiteriteri, Nelson], ? Lesson – PC-THURET [fide Galloway (1985a: 558)].

Sticta menziesii. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Dusky Sound 1791]. A. Menzies – BM [fide Galloway (1985a: 558)].

Sticta latifrons var. ochroleuca. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco. – BM, not seen.

Sticta menziesii var. palmata. Type: New Zealand. Auckland, Drury, Jelinek and Hochstetter – M, not seen.

Sticta menziesii var. dissecta. Type: New Zealand. Sine loco. Schwarz – M, not seen.

Sticta internectens. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco. Comm. F.v. Mueller ex Herb. Krempelhuber – M 401/31 [fide Galloway (1985a: 558)].

Sticta nervosa. Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Bay of Islands], J.D. Hooker – FH, not seen.

Sticta philipsonii. Holotype: New Zealand. Canterbury, along road to Arthur [sic] Pass. On Nothofagus. C.W. Dodge 61-A–10 – FH, not seen.

Descriptions : Flora (1985: 557). See also Galloway (1997: 143–145).

N: Northland (Three Kings Is) to Wellington. S: Nelson to Southland. St: A: C: Ch.: Widespread throughout [map in Galloway (1997: 146, fig. 30)], common, s.l. to 1000 m, coastal and inland. A conspicuous and often richly developed epiphyte of trees and shrubs, rarely on rocks in deep shade in humid habitats. Known also from Australia (Galloway 1998e, 2001f; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Australasian

Exsiccati : Vězda (1997c: No. 278).

Illustrations : Galloway (1997: 106, fig. 1; 109, fig. 5; 112, fig. 6; 144, fig. 29; 146–147).

Sticta latifrons is characterised by: the corticolous (rarely saxicolous) habit; its robust holdfast; a thick, terete, supporting stalk, and large, thick, coriaceous lobes with entire margins and scattered, laminal, red-brown apothecia. It is the largest and most robust stalked green species of the genus in New Zealand (or elsewhere) and is the most commonly collected. Specimens from Fiordland and Stewart I. have a predominantly pale lower surface and thin, rather fragile lobes that arise directly from the holdfast. "Dendriscocaulon" with attached lobes of S. latifrons are occasionally met with (see James & Henssen 1976). See also Galloway (1997: 112. fig. 6).