Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Pannaria thysanota Stirt., Proc. phil. Soc. Glasgow 10: 293 (1877).

Lectotype: Chatham Is, Sine loco. H. Travers – BM [fide Galloway (1985a: 349)].

Descriptions : Flora (1985: 349). See also Jørgensen & Galloway (1992b: 278).

Chemistry : TLC−, all reactions negative.

N: Northland (Little Barrier I.). S: Nelson (Cobb Valley), Canterbury (Cass), Otago (Lake McKenzie) to Fiordland. St: (Port Pegasus). Ch: Overgrowing mosses, litter and rotten wood in heath or grassland or on old bark at the base of trees, from s.l. to 900 m. Known also from Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania) and southern Argentina and Chile (Calvelo & Lorenzo 1989: 663; Jørgensen & Galloway 1992b: 278; Lücking et al. 2003; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Austral

Illustrations : Darbishire (1912: pl. 3, fig. 30 – as Parmeliella major); Calvelo & Lorenzo (1989: 661, fig. 3F); Jørgensen & Galloway (1992b: 276, fig. 96C); Lücking et al. (2003: 29, fig. 6E).

Parmeliella thysanota is characterised by: the corticolous/muscicolous habit; clustered, imbricate, ascending, thin squamules, the margins becoming copiously lobulate–flattened; frequent, plane to convex, waxy, red-brown apothecia with a prominent, pale margin; and ellipsoidal ascospores, 14–16 × 6–8 μm.