Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Parmelia lugubris Pers. in C. Gaudichaud-Beaupré, Voy. Uranie Bot.: 196 (1827).

Description : Flora (1985: 191).

Chemistry : Cortex K+ yellow; medulla KC+ red, Pd+ red; containing atranorin, chloroatranorin, physodic acid, physodalic acid (major), protocetraric acid, 2'- O -methylphysodic acid, alectoronic acid, 3-hydroxyphysodic acid and vittatolic acid (present or absent) (Elix 1992).

N: Gisborne (Raukumara Ra.), Wellington (Ruapehu, Waipakihi Valley Kaimanawa Mts, Tararua Ra.) S: Nelson (Mt Arthur Ra., Mt Peel, St Arnaud Ra.), Westland (Otira Valley, Kelly Ra., Mariner's Peak Moeraki Valley, Barlow River Great Unknown), Canterbury (Mt Technical Lewis Pass, Mt St Patrick, Mt Isobel Hanmer Ra., Arthur's Pass, Porter's Pass, Torlesse Ra., Mt Hutt, Copland Ridge, Mt Wakefield, Malte Brun Ra., Sebastopol Mt Cook, Mt Peel, Hunters Hills), Otago (Forgotten River, Park Pass, Olivine Ledge, E & W Matukituki Valley, Upper Shotover River, Bride Burn, Mt Earnslaw, Pisa Ra., Remarkables, Umbrella Mts, Old Man Ra., Dunstan Mts, Mt Ida, Mt Pisgah Kakanui Mts, Silver Peaks, Swampy Summit, Mt Cargill, Flagstaff Hill Dunedin, Maungatua, Waipori Gorge, Blue Mts), Southland (Homer, Mt George, Oonah Saddle Fiordland, Murchison Mts, Henry Saddle, Cascade Cove, Mt Clerke Resolution I., Dusky Sound, Lake Wapiti, Longwood Ra., Centre Bush). St: (Mt Anglem, Mt Allen, Tin Ra., Deceit Peaks Port Pegasus). A: C: On twigs of shrubs, among grasses and bryophytes, on exposed soil and rocky bluffs, subalpine to high-alpine. Known also from Papua New Guinea, SE Australia, and southern South America (Elix 1980, 1992; Galloway & Quilhot 1999; Kantvilas et al. 2002; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Austral

Exsiccati : Elix (1987: No. 132).

Illustrations : Elix (1980: 200, fig. 9; 1992: 221, fig. 77); Malcolm & Galloway (1997: 72); Kantvilas & Jarman (1999: 69); Malcolm & Malcolm (2000: 91) Øvstedal & Lewis Smith (2001: pl. 45); Kantvilas et al. (2002: 9, 46).

Hypogymnia lugubris is characterised by: corticolous (occasionally terricolous/saxicolous) habit; elongated, broad, inflated lobes, 1.5–3.5 mm wide, that are moderately to sparsely branched and that have prominent black bands and markings on the upper surface. Lobes are generally uniformly terete to subterete and erect specimens show no differences between upper and lower cortices. Two named varieties are accepted.