Cladonia enantia
=Cladonia enantia f. dilatata Vain., Acta Soc. Faun. Fl. fenn. 10: 38 (1894). For typification see Galloway (1985a: 112).
Lectotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], 1867, Charles Knight 204 – H-NYL 38740 [fide Galloway (1985a: 112)]. Isolectotypes – BM, H-NYL, TUR-VAINIO, ZT (Ahti 1993: 76).
Cladonia enantia f. dilatata. Holotype: New Zealand. Sine loco [probably Wellington], 1873, Charles Knight ex herb. Arnold – TUR-VAINIO 18600.
Description : Flora (1985: 111–112). See also Archer (1992b: 123).
Chemistry : Cortex K− or faint yellow, C−, KC−, Pd+ red; containing fumarprotocetraric acid (major) and protocetraric acid (tr.).
N: Northland (Cuvier I.), Wellington (Ohau Valley Tararua Ra.) throughout. S: Nelson to Canterbury (Port Hills) Otago (Trotter's Gorge), Southland (Astronomer's Point Dusky Sound, Longwood Ra.). On soil in forests E and W of Main Divide, on roadside banks, in Leptospermum heath and on coastal banks. It is common along pathways, and a very exuberant rather fragile form looking like a fenestrate Siphula is sometimes met with in damp grass and moss. Basal squamules are often well-developed in coastal, northern habitats. Also in Australia where it is rather uncommon (Archer 1992b; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).
Australasian
Cladonia enantia is often found sterile in clumps or mats of basal squamules. It differs chemically from C. neozelandica, its podetia are shorter, less fissured, not squamulose, ribbed-striate and it has multiple, fastigiate-branched apices with convex black fruits. As well, the basal squamules are larger, more crenate-ragged than those of C. neozelandica.
