Flora of New Zealand Series

L. chrysodeta (Vainio ex Räsänen) Laundon, Lichenologist 6: 103 (1974).

Placodium chrysodetum Vainio ex Räsänen, Annls Acad. Sci. fenn. A 34 (4): 113 (1931).

Thallus irregularly delimited, forming scattered granules at first which later form irregularly scattered patches, at length converging, forming a thick, often areolate crust, brownish yellow or greyish-yellow, margins indefinite, without lobes. Surface composed entirely of a mass of pulverulent spherical granules, 0.1 mm diam., cortex absent. Chemistry: K+ violet-red, C-. Parietin.

S: Canterbury (Weka Pass) on limestone rocks, first collected by P. W. James (September, 1981).

?Bipolar