Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Lecanora chrysosticta Hook.f. & Taylor, Lond. J. Bot. 3: 642 (1844).

≡Myxodictyon chrysostictum (Hook.f. & Taylor) A.Massal., Atti Ist. Veneto Sci. Lett. Arti, ser. 3, 5: 254 (1860).

≡Lecidea chrysosticta (Hook.f. & Taylor) Nyl., Lich. Nov. Zel.: 90 (1888).

≡Lopadium chrysostictum (Hook.f. & Taylor) Hellb., Bihang K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3/13): 95 (1896).

Lectotype: New Zealand. [Northland. Bay of Islands], on bark No 1, J.D. Hooker – BM [fide Hafellner & Bellemère (1982: 246)]. Isolectotypes – FH, VER [material in Massalongo's herbarium in Verona is annotated in Massalongo's hand "Chrysosticta taylorii Massal., nov. gen."].

Descriptions : Flora (1985: 41); Hafellner (1997: 44).

N: Northland (Te Paki, Kaitaia, Te Huka, Cavalli Is, Waipoua Forest, Maunganui Bluff Onerahi, Hen I., Little Barrier I., Great Barrier I., Mahurangi R., Orewa), Auckland (Waitakere Ra.), South Auckland (Mt Maungatawhiri, Taitua Reserve, Kopuku, Waihaha, Te Kauri Reserve Otorohanga), Taranaki (Maungatiti), Wellington (Kapiti I.). S: Nelson (Kaihoka Lakes), Marlborough (Chetwode Is, Resolution Bay, Blue Duck Reserve Seaward Valley), Westland (Greymouth), Canterbury (Lewis Pass), St: (Port Pegasus). C: (Mt Lyall). Widespread from the Bay of Islands (Northland) to Stewart I. and Campbell I. Coastal and lowland on a wide range of native trees and shrubs (Agathis australis, Aristotelia serrata, Avicennia marina var. resinifera, Beilschmiedia tarairi, B. tawa, Carpodetus serratus, Coprosma spp., Cordyline australis, Dacrydium cupressinum, Dracophyllum uniflorum, Fuchsia excorticata, Griselinia littoralis, Halocarpus kirkii, Hoheria spp., Knightia excelsa, Laurelia novaezelandiae, Leptospermum scoparium, Melicytus ramiflorus, Metrosideros excelsa, Myrsine australis,, Nothofagus solandri, Olearia sp., Phyllocladus glaucus, Pittosporum eugenioides, Plagianthus betulinus, Podocarpus totara, Prumnopitys taxifolia, Pseudopanax ssp., Rhopalostylis sapida, Sophora microphylla, Weinmannia racemosa). It also occurs on introduced species of Populus and Salix, and is sometimes found on decorticated wood [William Colenso (WELT L 1095) notes on his collection 3585 "Small lichens, on bark, from my garden fence", i.e. Mission Station Hawke's Bay], and occasionally on coastal rocks. Also known from New Caledonia and the Juan Fernandez Archipelago (Hafellner 1997).

Austral

Illustrations : Massalongo (1863: tab. 1 – as Myxodictyon chrysostictum); Lindsay (1866b: pl. LXII, fig. 17 – as Lecanora chrysosticta); Martin & Child (1972: 119, pl. 31 – as Myxodictyon chrysostictum); Malcolm & Galloway (1997: 95, 134, 141); Hafellner (1997: 55, fig. 7B); Australasian Lichenology 44 (1999: front cover); Malcolm & Malcolm (2000: 1); Lumbsch et al. (2001: 16).

Brigantiaea chrysosticta is readily recognised from all other species of Brigantiaea, by the whitish thalline margin to the apothecia. Specimens are sometimes parasitised by the lichenicolous fungus * Roselliniella lopadii (q.v.) (Hafellner 1985a, 1985b).