Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Polycauliona cribrosa Hue, Bull.Soc. linn. Normandie, sér. 6, 1: 87 (1909).

≡Thamnoma ["Thamnonoma"] cribrosa (Hue) Gyeln., Acta Faun. Fl. Univ. ser. II, 1(5–6): 9 (1933).

=Kuttlingeria macquariensis C.W.Dodge, Nova Hedwigia 19: 451 (1971) ["1970"].

Kuttlingeria macquariensis. Type: Macquarie I., Gordon Cove, growing over mosses on coastal rock, D.A. Brown 20, ANARE – ? FH. (Not seen). [Material seen of this taxon from the Auckland Is and the Snares (CANU!) cited in Dodge (1971: 452) and identified by Dodge as Kuttlingeria macquariensis, is all referable to C. cribrosa].

Description : Flora (1985: 65)

N: Northland (Three Kings Is, Puheke, Kawerua, Poor Knights Is, Hen & Chicken Is), South Auckland (Slipper I., Waikawau Bay Coromandel Peninsula), Wellington. S: Nelson to Marlborough (Ship Cove, Hippah I., Goose Bay, Chetwode Is), Canterbury (Taylor's Mistake, Tumbledown Bay, Banks Peninsula), Otago (Long Beach, Kaikai Beach, Quarantine Is, Blackhead, Taieri Beach, Motu Rata, Akatore, Cook Head, Chrystall's Beach, Kaka Point, Cannibal Bay), Southland (Howell's Point, Bluff). St: (Port Pegasus). Ch: (Tapuangi-Monau Reef, SW of Waitangi, Ellice Point). Sn: A: (Adams I., Shoe I., Davis I., Ocean I., Port Ross), C: Ant: (Hut Cove, South Bay, Anchorage Bay). On coastal rocks (mainly acidic rocks but also occasionally on maritime limestone rocks, and rarely on decorticated wood) associating with Amandinea otagensis, Caloplaca circumlutosa, C. papanui, C. rosei, C. sublobulata. Known also from Tasmania and Macquarie I., southern Chile and Marion I (Dodge 1971; Poelt & Pelleter 1984; Kantvilas 1989, 1994b; Kantvilas & Seppelt 1992; Filson 1996; Kärnefelt 1998; Galloway & Quilhot 1999; Øvstedal & Gremmen 2001; McCarthy 2003c, 2006).

Austral

Illustrations : Poelt & Pelleter (1984: 62, fig. 6C; 84, fig. 10H); Kärnefelt (1998: 32, fig. 2; 33, fig. 3).

Caloplaca cribrosa is characterised by: the saxicolous habit (coastal rocks); the distinctive, plicate-radiate, rosette-forming to spreading thallus, often confluent (2–)3–6(–10) cm diam.; the ±terete, subfruticose lobes with scattered, effigurate, slightly sunken pseudocyphellae on their surface. It is one of a group of coastal saxicolous lichens found in the subantarctic zone.