Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Sticta faveolata Delise, Mém. Soc. linn. Calvados [Normandie] 2: 102 (1825) ["1822"]. [For typification and additional synonymy see Galloway & James (1980: 298); 1986: 436); Galloway et al. (1983b: 140); Galloway (1988a: 134–135)].

=Sticta cellulifera Hook.f. & Taylor, Lond. J. Bot. 3: 647 (1844).

≡Crocodia cellulifera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis., Lichenotheca veneta exs. 75 (1869).

≡Diphanosticta cellulifera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Clem., Gen. fung.: 175 (1909).

≡Pseudocyphellaria cellulifera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Gyeln., Feddes Reprium Spec. Nov. Veg. 29: 2 (1931).

≡Sticta foveolata var. cellulifera (Hook.f. & Taylor) C.Bab. in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Nov. Zel. 2: 278 (1855).

≡Sticta fossulata var. cellulifera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Nyl., Syn. meth. lich. 1 (2): 364 (1860).

≡Sticta billardierei var. cellulifera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Müll.Arg., Flora71: 135 (1888).

≡Lobaria billardierei var. cellulifera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Hellb., Bihang K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3/13): 41 (1896).

=Sticta lorifera Stirt., Trans. N. Z. Inst. 32: 73 (1900).

=Sticta elatior Stirt., Trans. N.Z. Inst. 32: 73 (1900).

=Sticta condensata Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl.: 104: 280 (1941).

≡Pseudocyphellaria condensata (Zahlbr.) D.J.Galloway & P.James, Lichenologist 12 (3): 294 (1980).

Sticta cellulifera. Lectotype: New Zealand. Campbell I., J.D. Hooker – BM [fide Galloway & James (1980: 298)]. Isolectotype – FH.

Sticta lorifera. Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington, John Buchanan – BM [fide Galloway (1988a: 135)]. Isolectotype – BM.

Sticta elatior. Lectotype: New Zealand. Near Wellington, John Buchanan – BM [fide Galloway (1988a: 135)].

Sticta condensata. Holotype: New Zealand. South I., Southland, Riverton Bush, on rotten log, J.S. Thomson ZA 541 – W. Isotypes – BM, CHR 317808.

Descriptions : Flora (1985: 441). See also Galloway (1988a: 136–137).

Chemistry : Methyl virensate, physciosporin, hopane-6α,7β,22-triol, stictic, norstictic (tr.), cryptostictic and constictic acids.

N: Northland (Puketi Forest) to Wellington. S: Nelson to Southland. St: (N coast to Port Pegasus), Sn: A: C: Throughout [map in Galloway (1988a: 138, fig. 63)], widespread and common occupying many habitat niches from windswept coastal scrub, lowland coastal forest, beech forest, mixed beech-podocarp forest, subalpine scrub close to or above treeline, to successional vegetation in disturbed sites. It is common on both bark and twigs, being especially well developed in open forest habitats (close to margins of standing forest) in high-rainfall areas, and is more commonly collected from southern and western localities. It is a moderately photophilous species and does not tolerate deep shade. It appears to be an obligate epiphyte and is not known from rocks and soil, although it will attach to ferns. It is known also from southern Victoria and Tasmania and from southern South America (Galloway 1992c; Galloway et al. 2001b; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Austral

Exsiccati : Vězda (1982a: No. 1846).

Illustrations : Babington (1855: pl. CXXIV – as Sticta faveolata var. cellulifera); Martin & Child (1972: 118, plate 30); Wilson (1978: 279, pl. 543 – as Pseudocyphellaria impressa; 1996: 359, pl. 562); Galloway & James (1986: 476–477; figs 21–B); Galloway (1988a: 134, fig. 61; 135, fig. 62); Lange (1992: 55, fig. 37); Kantvilas & Jarman (1999: 119); Flora of Australia 58A (2001: 99, pls 37, 38).

Pseudocyphellaria faveolata is characterised by: linear-elongate, narrow to broad lobes that are dichotomously to irregularly branched and with divergent, blunt or acute apices; entire, thickened margins with prominent, raised, verruciform white pseudocyphellae; a coriaceous, waxy, reticulate-faveolate upper surface without isidia, maculae, phyllidia, pseudocyphellae or soredia; a white medulla; a green photobiont; a dark-brown to black lower surface with scattered white or creamish pseudocyphellae; marginal apothecia with a dark red-brown to black disc that is white-pruinose at first; a dark grey-brown epithecium turning vinous-purple in K; and a complex chemistry of depsides, hopane triterpenoids and depsidones, with physciosporin as a characteristic compound.