Flora of New Zealand Series

Parmelia podocarpa Bél., Voy. Ind. Orient. Bot. II. Crypt.: 122 pl. e, fig. 1 (1834).

Lobes disjunct to imbricate, convex, ascending, with short or long lateral lobes. Upper surface uneven. Isidia and soralia absent. Lower surface ecorticate, white. Apothecia apical or subapical, pedicellate, thalline exciple squamulose at margins. Ascospores with sporoblastidia 40-51 × 18-25 µm. Chemistry: Atranorin, zeorin, norstictic and salazinic acids.

S: Nelson, Maruia Valley, Speargrass Flat east of Springs Junction. On twigs of divaricating shrubs at roadside. First collected by P. W. James (September 1981), probably more widely distributed.

Cosmopolitan