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Lichens A-Pac (2007) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens - Revised Second Edition A-Pac
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Cladonia sulcata var. wilsonii (A.W.Archer) A.W.Archer

C. sulcata var. wilsonii (A.W.Archer) A.W.Archer, N. Z. J. Bot. 24: 583 (1986).

≡Cladonia wilsonii A.W.Archer, Muelleria 5: 274 (1984).

Description : Similar in all respects to C. sulcata but differing in containing stictic acid instead of psoromic acid.

Chemistry : K+ weak yellow, KC−, Pd+ weak yellow; containing atranorin, bourgeanic, stictic, constictic (tr.), cryptostictic (tr.) and norstictic (tr.) acids.

N: Northland (Three Kings Is, Karikari Peninsula, Waipoua Forest), Auckland (Waitakere Ra.). S: Nelson (Dun Mountain). On soil. Also in Australia and Tasmania (Archer & Bartlett 1986; Archer 1992b; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Australasian

Cladonia sulcata var. wilsonii is characterised by: the grooved, splitting podetia; and the presence of bourgeanic and stictic acids.

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