Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Cladonia verticillata var. krempelhuberi Vain., Acta Soc. Faun. Fl. fenn. 10: 187 (1894).

Description : Flora (1985: 114). See also Archer (1992b: 128).

Chemistry : Cortex K+ weak yellow or K−, KC−, Pd+ red; containing fumarprotocetraric acid (major), protocetraric acid (tr.) and atranorin (major).

N: Northland (Three Kings Is, Great Mercury I.) South Auckland (Rabbit I.) to Wellington. S: Otago (Wanaka, Haast Pass), Southland (Makarewa). St: (Fraser Peaks). In Leptospermum heath, in bogs and dry peaty soils, and on soils at margins of Nothofagus forest.

Western Pacific

Illustration : Yoshimura (1974: pl. 28, fig. 253 – as C. krempelhuberi var. subevoluta).

Cladonia krempelhuberi is distinguished from C. cervicornis ssp. verticillata by the presence of atranorin (this has a characteristic smell – see above under C. ecmocyna). A characteristic species with narrow podetia and repeatedly proliferating ranks of scyphi.