Flora of New Zealand Series

Description : Flora (1985: 339).

Chemistry : Cortex K+ yellow; medulla K+ yellow→dark red, C−, Pd + red-orange; containing atranorin, chloroatranorin, salazinic acid (major), consalazinic acid (minor), lobaric acid (minor) and ±protocetraric acid (trace) (Elix 1994m: 116).

N: Northland to Wellington. S: Marlborough, Westland, Canterbury (Hooker Valley, Nina Valley). A: A mainly saxicolous coastal species in northern New Zealand, corticolous in inland North I. and South I. localities. Known also from Lord Howe I., and E and S Australia (Galloway & Elix 1983: 402; Hale 1987: 24–25; Elix 1994m: 19; McCarthy 2003c, 2006) and from South Africa, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan and Japan (Kurokawa 1969; Hale 1987: 25, fig. 15; Kurokawa & Lai 2001: 253).

Western Pacific

Illustrations : Galloway & Elix (1983: 401, fig. 5); Hale (1987: 4, fig. 2f, 20, fig. 13F); Elix (1994m: 117, fig. 50A); Kantvilas et al. (2002: 100).

Parmelia erumpens is characterised by: the deeply reticulately fissured cortex and abundant, coarse, isidioid soredia.