Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Cladonia aggregata var. inflata F.Wilson, Pap. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania 1892–1893: 153 (1893).

=Cladia aggregata f. fiordense W.Martin, Trans. Roy. Soc. N. Z. Bot. 2: 44 (1962).

Cladia aggregata f. fiordense. Holotype: New Zealand. Southland, Secretary Island, Doubtful Sound, amongst mosses and low shrubs at 1000 m in Cladonia gut, J. Murray – CHR 170221.

Description : Flora (1985: 96).

Chemistry : Thallus K−, C−, KC−, Pd+ red; containing fumarprotocetraric and barbatic acids and fatty acids.

S: Nelson (Mt Augustus, Stockton Plateau), Southland (above Cascade Cove Dusky Sound, Waitutu Terraces). St: (Mt Anglem, Fraser Peaks). A: (Sealer's Creek). It has a rather restricted occurrence in high-rainfall areas between lats 41º38's and 46º12's, W of the Main Divide and in southern Fiordland, occurring also on Stewart Island and the Auckland Is. It is a subalpine species growing most commonly in well-drained Chionochloa grasslands from 100 to 1600 m associating with C. aggregata, C. sullivanii and Siphula decumbens. Known also from Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania (Kantvilas & Elix 1987; Filson 1992b; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Australasian

Illustrations : Martin (1962: 41, fig. 1D); Galloway (1977a: 485, fig. 1); Filson (1981: 61, pl. 15C; 66, pl. 20C); Kantvilas & Elix (1999: 153, fig. 7).

Cladia inflata is characterised by: the sparse, mainly dichotomously branching, inflated lobes with rather sparse perforations; and fumarprotocetraric acid as the major chemical compound. For differences between C. inflata and C. aggregata see above under that species.