Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Parmelia pellita Ach., Lichenogr. universalis: 468 (1810).

Description : Flora (1985: 128).

N: Three Kings Is, Northland (Pandora, Kaitaia), Auckland (Rangitoto I., Waitakere Ra.), South Auckland (Mt Maungatawhiri, Coromandel, Lake Rotoiti). S: Nelson (Lake Rotoiti), Otago (Routeburn Valley, Trotter's Gorge). An epiphyte of coastal broadleaved forest trees and shrubs, mainly in northern New Zealand, from s.l. to 400 m. Known also from Asia, Brazil, and Australia (Aptroot 2002e; Wolseley et al. 2002; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Pantropical

Illustrations : Arvidsson & Galloway (1979: 241, fig. 1C, D); Arvidsson (1983: 11, fig. 3A; 12, fig. 4; 13, fig. 6A; 18, fig. 6A, B; 77, figs 54A–C); Grgurinovic (1992: 218, fig. 67).

Coccocarpia pellita is separated from P. palmicola on the basis of its squamiform isidia. It is still very much undercollected in New Zealand.