Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Parmelia jamesii Hale, Phytologia 23: 179 (1972).

≡Parmelina jamesii (Hale) Hale, Smiths. Contr. Bot. 33: 35 (1976).

Holotype: New Zealand. Wellington, on Nothofagus by coast, i.1963, P.W. James 2118 – BM. Isotype – TNS (Kashiwadani & Kurokawa 2003: 62).

Description : Flora (1985: 351 – as Parmelina jamesii).

Chemistry : Cortex K+ yellow; medulla K−, C−, KC−, Pd+ red; containing atranorin, chloroatranorin, malonprotocetraric acid (major) and protocetraric acid (tr.).

N: Auckland to Wellington. On bark of forest trees. Known also from New South Wales in Australia (McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Australasian

Illustrations : Elix (1994o: 133, fig. 53C).

Parmelinopsis jamesii is characterised by: the corticolous habit; the simple, cylindrical isidia; and malonprotocetraric acid in the medulla.