Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Sphaerophorus australis var. scrobiculatus C.Bab. in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Nov. Zel. 2: 304 (1855).

≡Sphaerophorus melanocarpus var. scrobiculatus (C.Bab.) Js.Murray, Trans. Roy. Soc. N. Z. 88: 192 (1960).

≡Sphaerophorus scrobiculatus (C.Bab.) M.Sâto, Miscnea Bryol. Lichenol. (Nichinan) 4 (9): 151 (1968).

=Sphaerophorus australis var. macrophyllus Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss Kl. 104: 259 (1941).

≡Sphaerophorus melanocarpus var. scrobiculatus f. macrophyllus (Zahlbr.) Js.Murray, Trans. Roy. Soc. N. Z. 88: 192 (1960).

≡Sphaerophorus scrobiculatus f. macrophyllus (Zahlbr.) M.Sâto, Miscnea Bryol. Lichenol. (Nichinan) 4 (9): 151 (1968).

Lectotype: New Zealand. North I., sine loco, W. Colenso – BM [fide Galloway (1985a: 536)].

Sphaerophorus australis var. macrophyllus. Lectotype: New Zealand. Canterbury. Cass, base of trunk of Nothofagus menziesii, V. Zotov ZA 475 – W [fide Wedin (1993a: 234) – the protologue in fact gives H.H.Allan no. 7 as the collector of the Cass material and not V. Zotov, who collected his material from the Tararua Ra.].

Descriptions : Flora (1985: 535–536 – as Sphaerophorus scrobiculatus); Tibell (1987: 249); Wedin (1995b: 81; 2001a: 11).

Chemistry : Medulla K−, Pd−; containing 4- O -methylhypoprotocetraric acid (major), isousnic acid, placodiolic acid (tr.), isousnic acid (tr.), "UN-notatus" (tr.).

N: Northland (Waima State Forest Park) to Wellington (Tararua Ra.). S: Nelson to Southland (Lake Hauroko). St: A: C: On bark, decaying stumps, rarely among mosses on rocks, s.l. to 1200 m. Also in eastern Australia, Tasmania, Juan Fernandez, southern Chile, Argentina, and the Falkland Is (Wedin 1995b; 2001a: 11; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Austral

Exsiccati : Tibell (1982: No. 74; 1989: No. 174 – as Sphaerophorus scrobiculatus).

Illustrations : Murray (1960a: pl. 13, fig. 9 – as Sphaerophorus melanocarpus var. scrobiculatus); Sâto (1968c: 151, fig. 2 – as Sphaerophorus scrobiculatus); Tibell (1984: 617, fig. 8E; 1987: 249, fig. 187 – as Sphaerophorus scrobiculatus); Wedin (1995b: 82, fig. 40); Flora of Australia58A (2001: xiii, pl. 9).

Exsiccati : Vězda (1997h: 2, No. 333).

Bunodophoroun scrobiculatus is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the broad flattened thallus branches that are "waisted" below the coarsely scrobiculate, often broadly flaring apothecia. The chemistry is also distinctive with 4- O- methylhypoprotocetraric acid as a major compound.