Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Lecidea campylospora Stirt., Trans. N. Z. Inst. 6: 238 (1874) [not 1873 as given in Sipman (1983: 144) and Galloway (1985a: 267)].

≡Megalospora sulphurata var. campylospora (Stirt.) Zahlbr., Cat. lich. univ. 4 (1): 90 (1927).

=Lecidea (Catillaria) clathrata C.Knight, Trans. N. Z. Inst. 15: 350 (1883).

=Lecidea taitensis * epiglauca Nyl., Lich. Nov. Zel.: 87 (1888).

≡Patellaria sulphurata var. epiglauca (Nyl.) Müll.Arg., Bull. Herb. Boissier 2, App. 1: 64 (1894).

≡Psorothecium taitense * Ps. epiglaucum (Nyl.) Hellb., Bihang K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21 (3/13): 97 (1896).

≡Psorothecium taitensis var. epiglaucum (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Ann. Mycol. 2: 270 (1904).

=Megalospora allanii Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 315 (1941).

Lectotype: New Zealand. Wellington, Kaka Hill, xii.1871, J. Buchanan 11 – WELT [fide Sipman (1983: 114)].

Lecidea clathrata. Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], Charles Knight, rec'd 11/83 – BM [fide Sipman (1983: 114)].

Lecidea taitensis * epiglauca. Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], 1867, Charles Knight 79a – H-NYL 18175.

Megalospora allanii. Holotype: New Zealand. Chelsea near Auckland, in beech forest on [Suttonia] Myrsine australis, i.1932, H.H. Allan ZA 471 – W. Isotype – CHR.

Description : Flora (1985: 267).

Chemistry : K−, C−, KC−, Pd+ orange; containing pannarin and zeorin.

N: Northland to Wellington. S: Nelson to Southland, both E and W of the Main Divide. On bark of Agathis australis, Beilschmiedia tawa, Halocarpus kirkii, Myrsine australis, Nothofagus menziesii, Podocarpus hallii and Phyllocladus trichomanoides in lowland and subalpine forest, s.l. to 1000 m. More common in northern localities. Known also from Lord Howe I. (Sipman 1983). The sorediate specimen recorded from Tasmania by Sipman (1983: 117) is now referable to M. pulverata Kantvilas (Kantvilas 1994d: 255) a Tasmanian endemic.

Australasian

Illustrations : Knight (1883: pl. XXXVIII, fig. 29 – as Lecidea clathrata); Malcolm & Galloway (1997: 76, 100).

Megalospora campylospora is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the presence of pannarin; the warted epispore; pruinose apothecial discs; and sulphurata -type ascospores (2–6 per ascus, 1-septate, 45–85 × 20–40 μm).