Cladonia subdigitata Nyl.
C. subdigitata var. polydactyloides Nyl., C. r. hebd. Séanc. Acad. Sci. Paris 83: 88 (1876).
Type: New Zealand. Campbell I. M. Filhol, 1874, H-NYL - not seen.
C. subdigitata var. polydactyloides. Type: New Zealand. Campbell I. Same collection as above, H-NYL - not seen.
Primary squamules persistent or disappearing, small to medium, 1-2mm long and 0.5-0.7 mm diam., incised, laciniate or crenate, flat, sparse or crowded, upper surface glaucescent or whitish-glaucescent, lower side whitish, yellowish at base, without soredia or slightly granular below. Podetia growing from upper surface of primary squamules, dying below, 15-60 mm tall, 1-2 mm diam., subcylindrical, cups narrow to gradually dilated, regular or oblique, margins subentire to denate-proliferate, proliferations subsolitary or few, apices with cups or blunt, cups commonly in 2-3 tiers, commonly elongated from 15-40 mm, simple or proliferating from cup margins or arising rarely from side branches, imperforate, aggregated, erect. Cortex densely verrucose-isidiate or squamulose-furfuraceous, soredial granules thickly verrucuse and squamulose, dispersed or ± continuous towards base, yellowish-white or pale glaucescent,decorticate areas whitish, brownish and ± continuously corticate at base. Apothecia red, at tips of podetia 1-4 mm diam., solitary or ± confluent, pectinate. Chemistry: Cortex K+ yellow, KC-, Pd+ yellow. Thamnolic and usnic acids.
S: Throughout. St: A: C: In subalpine peat soils, grassland, on soil over rocks, among moss, rotting logs, dead tussock bases and in Dracophyllum and Leptospermum scrub, s.l. to 1500 m.
Australasian
