Flora of New Zealand Series

=Psoroma sphinctrinum var. crispellum Nyl., Syn. meth. lich. 2: 25 (1863).

≡Lecanora pholidotoides f. crispella (Nyl.) Nyl., Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séanc. Acad. Paris, sér. D, 83: 89 (1876).

=Pannaria campbelliana Hue, Nouv. Archs Mus. Hist. nat. Paris, sér. 4, 8: 271 (1906).

=Pannaria spectabile Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss Wien Math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 278 (1941).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Wellington, Tinakori Hills, xii.1871, J. Buchanan 38 – WELT [fide Galloway (1985a: 476) – Buchanan has annotated his specimen "38 Parmelia implexa n.s. Tinakori Hill Wellington Decr,/71. P. sphinctrina var. pholidotoides Nyl.". The lectotype specimen contained with it other loose specimens which the late Dr James Murray put in individual packets in March 1961, labelled 38 b–f]. Isolectotypes – BM, GLAM.

Pannaria campbelliana. Lectotype: New Zealand. Campbell I., 1874, M. Filhol – H-NYL 30769 [fide Galloway (1985a: 476)]. Isolectotype – PC-HUE.

Pannaria spectabile. Holotype: New Zealand. Otago. Flagstaff Hill, on Dacrydium cupressinum, 1933, J.S. Thomson ZA 145 – W. Isotypes – CHR, OTA.

Description : Flora (1985: 476).

Chemistry : Pd+ orange; containing pannarin.

N: South Auckland (Rotorua), Wellington (Tararua Ra., Wellington, Rimutaka Ra.). S: Nelson (Mt Arthur, Lake Rotoiti, Denniston, Tophouse), Westland (Greymouth), Canterbury (Lewis Pass, Boyle River, Arthur's Pass, Cass), Otago (Merton, Mihiwaka, Flagstaff, Hightop, Maungatua, Akatore), Southland (Secretary I., Dusky Sound). St: A: (Port Ross) C: Known also from southern Chile (Galloway & Quilhot 1999).

Austral

Psoroma sphinctrinum var. crispellum. Lectotype: New Zealand. Colenso 4705 – BM [fide Galloway (1985a: 476)]. Isolectotypes – H-NYL 30768, WELT L1120. Isolectotype in WELT is annotated in Colenso's hand "Lichen on Podocarpus Cunningham, forests Ruahine".

Psoroma implexum is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the squamulose thallus developing on a black, distinctly fibrous prothallus, projecting up to 5 mm beyond margins of thalline squamules; the thalline squamules are pale lettuce-green, discrete, scattered, rounded at margins, becoming irregularly lobate-incised to laciniate-elongate, 3 × 1 mm, confluent-imbricate in a mosaic centrally, margins minutely lobulate and distinctly white-pubescent or "frosted"; the lobate-crenate to placodioid cephalodia, 0.5–2 mm diam., and developed between squamules or occasionally overgrowing them; apothecia forming conglomerate groups, 2–6(–10) mm diam., the disc pale to dark red-brown, concentrically striate, or with thalline lobules or ridges; the thalline exciple, thick, waxy, crenate-striate; and oval ellipsoidal ascospores, 13–17 × 8–10 μm, with a wall 1.5–3 μm thick.