One plant has managed to grow outside of the protective cages. This one will be watched...
Caged plants at the last known natural site for this species.
On shaded riparian bank. ID by David Glenny.
On low roots in forest remanent. Leaf margin incurved, costa failing, leaves ,1 mm long.
Rare, local. Terricolous with Neophyllis melacarpa on ridge in logged kauri forest. Thallus C+ red. Esorediate, without orange red patches. Spores 11.25 x 3.75 microns.
Local. Lignicolous/terricolous on tree fern base. Soredia pale green. C+ red thallus.
Local on cut clay bank. Halonate spores and dark lower hypothecium are characteristic. Spores 16.25 x 7.5 microns.
ID by Allison Knight.
Local, corticolous in broadleaf forest. Underside with out pseudocyphellae. Apothecia rare.
Corticolous on smooth barked tree in cemetery. Thallus K+ orange, C+ orange, UV+ orange. Spores 7.5 - 11.25 x 6.25 microns.
Locally common, liginicolous on rotting log with Leucobryum javense in remnant broadleaf gully forest. K-, C-. Spores ovoid - ellipsoidal, 17.5 x 3.75 microns, 3 septate.
Titirangi, Auckland.
Roadside margin of Atkinson Park, opposite 38 Mahoe Rd.
Above high tide, against dunes. Seed presumably from beach drift, with Ipomoea cairica and Canavalia sericea. Two plants including: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/222748485
Found originally by Kevin Matthews.
On large boulder under beech trees
Coastal rocks.
Looks similar to https://inaturalist.nz/observations/79907058
Corticolous in forest
Local, corticolous in riparian forest with DENfla. Small spore bodies on margins, lobes with distinct incisions between apothecia. UV-, Pd-. Confirmed by Mats Wedin.
Local. Corticolous in beech forest. Thallus flattened. Medulla Pd-. Spores rounded, grey to brownish, more than 10 microns. Two forms here?
Local. Corticolous in beech forest. Thallus flattened. Medulla Pd+ yellow orange. Spores rounded, grey to brownish, more than 10 microns. Two forms here?
A single plant growing outside Hotel on roadside just above Petre Bay.
Voucher: P.J. de Lange CH4528, UNITEC 14389
Local in riparian forest under mānuka.
Locally common in riparian forest under mānuka. Pith continuous and interrupted.
In Galloway 2007 as Aspicilia contorta (Hoffm.) Kremp.
New North Island record. On calcareous rock (gravestone cement). Pruinose thallus and discs, 6–8-spored asci, globose ascospores colourless, 25–30 × 20 μm.
Ayton Reserve. On a hilly area. Abundant number of seedlings underneath a mature tree. The parent tree is flowering heavily.
Many weeds nearby like tradescantia fluninensis. Tibouchina urvilleana, Fuchsia boliviana, Passiflora spp.
Local on queen palm (Syagrus romanzoffiana) with Parmotrema reticulatum, Flavoparmelia sp. and other Parmeliods. Rhizines simple to branched, soredia, UV-, with apothecia.
Corticolous on windfall in red beech forest. C+ red medulla, with maculae.
Small patch, but rapidly spreading. Individuals found occasionally in the 20m surrounding it.
Local liverwort on forest floor, heavily fertile. Plants nondendroid, entire, midvein broad, margins undulate.
On Panekire Bluff. Rotorua Botanical Society Newsletter April 1985: page 6.
Saxicolous, local - rare. Lobes <8mm wide, truncate. With marginal cilia, rhizines simple or branching. UV+ gold, C+ red medulla.
These photos are from Flora of NZ (www.nzflora.info) and are CC-BY-NC 3.0
Locally common - either on small accummulations of sand and eroded rendzina soil from limestone towers, or on the sides of limestone towers. Leaves usually heavily mined by an as yet undetermined leaf miner. Commonly associated with Oxybasis ambigua and Disphyma papillatum.
Thought might be amabilis. Very black at base. But pith c. empty.
In coastal forest with Pyrenula. The pruinose apothecia. Thallus K+ yellow - red, C-.
Corticolous on Taiwanese cherry. K+ yellow to red. Ascospores 8 per ascus.
Local, corticolous on PLAcoa roots in steep coastal forest.
Local, corticolous on DRAlon in subalpine scrub.
In coastal forest with Radula demissa: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/190175225 Det. by David Glenny.
A small population that I visited in 1998 and still here.
Rare. Saxicolous on south facing coastal promontory. Soredia on laciniae, margins with cilia, UV-, cortex K+ yellow, medulla K+ dingy yellow to dirty yellow.
Locally common, saxicolous on subalpine.
Corticolous in swamp forest. With apothecia.
Seen on old growth tree stump in exposed tops. Sorediate and hollow.
Appears to be naturalised likely garden waste.
Corticolous on Dracophyllum in montane scrub.
Corticolous on manawa (Avicennia marina subsp. resinifera). Associated with Lecanora c.f. carpinea, Bacidia sp., Opegrapha agelaeoides and Ramalina celastri.
Specimens fit here best using the New Zealand Lichen "Flora" (Galloway 2007) Caloplaca key. Apothecia orange, closely grouped, minute, up to 0.3 mm diameter; asci 8-spored, ascospores oval, 12.5 microns long, 7 microns wide, septum c. 4 microns thick (about one third spore length).
Voucher: UNITEC.
Seems to fit here best. Noted on shaded entrance to small cave in Orthoquarzite outcrop. Terricolous on skeletal peaty soil, under Lepidothamnus intermedius / Phyllocladus aff. alpinus / Metrosideros umbellata.
Thallus swarding, intertangled, mottled black, black brown with portions pale green-white, not pruinose, not crystalline or areolate, perforations numerous elliptical to rounded, irregular. However, medulla white not black. Cortex K-, C- KC- Pd-.
Of the options in the currently accepted Rexiella for New Zealand this observation fits in R. fuliginosa better than R. sullivanii which has a crystalline cortex, which is yellow, yellow brown, greenish or white with a black medulla - see for example https://inaturalist.nz/observations/19024654
So I am putting this one in Rexiella fuliginosa as a placeholder, on the basis of the available descriptions for New Zealand specimens and consultation with Dr Dan Blanchon.
A new weed for NZ.
The white rhizoids in the lower leaf axils (image 5) and the long black tipped changing to gold then white calyptra (image 6) are indicators for this species. The dark line in the centre of the leaf in image 7 is not a costa but a fold in the leaf lamina, another species indicator.
The cells at the leaf base are broader than the other leaf cells and closer to rectangular (image 9). The main lamina cells are like long stretched diamonds that become shorter as you move up the leaf. (11 is lower mid leaf @ 100x and 12 is upper leaf @ 400x)
Terricolous in drylands. K+ yellow medulla, UV-, Pd + red, soredia, grass like.
Local, terricolous streamside. Thallus smooth, phyllidiate, hairy underside, spores submuriform, 10 x 5 microns. Apothecia with white silky hairs, thalline margin entire (non lobulate), tomentose underside - localised hairs.
Saxicolous on alpine stacks in sheltered rocks.
Terricolous with CLAdar with POLjun in riparian beech forest. Tomentose on margins, esorediate, rhizines pale, erect tomentum.
Saxicolous in subalpine (siliceous rock). K+ yellow, C+ red, thallus greyish, spores brown, muriform, 55 x 30 microns, 4 spored asci.
Locally common on the trunks of nikau (Rhopalostylis sapida). Apothecia present but very uncommon.
Voucher: P.J. de Lange CH3048, UNITEC
Corticolous on Cordyline australis.
Matches Anisomeridium subbiforme in gross morphology but spores not 1-septate.
Determination by A.J. Marshall.