Australian Biological Resources Study
| Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories | ||
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References | ||
| Parmelia cunninghamii Cromb. | ||
| J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 15: 228 (1876). T: Island Harbour, Western Patagonia, 18 Apr. 1868, R.O.Cunningham s.n.; lecto: BM; isolecto: H, fide M.E.Hale, Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 66: 23 (1987). Parmelia brownii C.W.Dodge, Nova Hedwigia 19: 449 (1970). T: Camp Hill, Macquarie Island, 2 Nov. 1956, D.A.Brown 69; holo: FH-Dodge. | ||
| Thallus adnate, firm, to 8–15 cm wide. Lobes contiguous, subirregular, usually turning up at margins, apically subrotund, 3–7 mm wide. Upper surface pale greenish to brownish grey, shiny, becoming white-pruinose at lobe apices, smooth becoming rugose-foveolate, white maculate, reticulately fissured only in older parts, without isidia; pseudocyphellae mainly marginal, effigurate, few, small, punctiform; soralia linear along lobe margins, very rarely orbicular on lamina. Lower surface moderately to densely rhizinate; rhizines simple to squarrosely branched, 1–2 mm long. Apothecia rare, subpedicellate, 4–15 mm wide; disc concave; thalline exciple rugose, pseudocyphellate. Ascospores 11–15 × 6–9 µm. Pycnidia rare, marginal. Conidia bacilliform, 5.5–7 × 1 µm. CHEMISTRY: cortex K+ yellow; medulla K+ yellow then red, C-, P+ orange; containing atranorin, chloroatranorin, salazinic acid (major), consalazinic acid (minor) and ±lobaric acid. | ||
| Scattered in cooler areas of southern Australia (W.A., S.A., N.S.W., Vic. and Tas.), as well as Macquarie Is.; also occurs in New Zealand, southern South America and the Falkland Is. Grows on bark, less commonly on rock. | ||
| Elix (1994o) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from Australian Biological Resources Study. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed in the first instance to Dr P. McCarthy. These pages may not be displayed on, or downloaded to, any other server without the express permission of ABRS.