Flora of New Zealand Series

A. otagensis (Zahlbr.) Blaha & H.Mayrhofer in J. Blaha, Taxonomische Studien an saxicolen Arten der Flechtengattung Amandinea..:46 (2002).

≡Buellia otagensis Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 373 (1941).

≡Rinodina otagensis (Zahlbr.) H.Mayrhofer, Lichenologist 15 (3): 275 (1983).

=Buellia nitrophila Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss. Kl. 104: 372 (1941).

Holotype: New Zealand. Otago, Otago Heads, on coastal rock, i.1934, J.S. Thomson T 1013 [ZA 31] –W. Isotype – CHR 374334. OTA.

Buellia nitrophila. Holotype: New Zealand. Otago, Black Head, Dunedin, on coastal rocks, J.S. Thomson T 394 [A 84] –W. Isotype – CHR 374331 [erroneously designated as lectotype by Galloway (1985a: 50)].

Description : Flora (1985: 514 – as Rinodina otagensis).

Chemistry : TLC−, all reactions negative.

N: South Auckland (Waikawau Bay, Coromandel Peninsula), Wellington (Titahi Bay, Lyall Bay, Cape Palliser). S: Marlborough (Whites Bay), Otago (Brighton). St: (Noble I, Port Pegasus). Ch: (SW of Waitangi). On coastal rocks, associating with Caloplaca circumlutosa, C. cribrosa, C. sublobulata, C. rosei and Lecanora flotoviana.

Endemic

Illustrations : Mayrhofer (1983: 275, fig. 17); Malcolm & Malcolm (2000: 133); Blaha (2002: 29, fig. 9B; 47, fig. 20; 48, figs 21, 22).

Amandinea otagensis is characterised by: the saxicolous habit; adnate apothecia; ascospores of Dubyana -type, without a torus, 12–16 × 8–10 μm; and filiform conidia, 15–30 × 1 μm.