Pannaria pulverulacea
Family
Pannariaceae
Flora category
Lichen – Native
Endemic taxon
No
Endemic genus
No
Endemic family
No
Structural class
Lichens - Foliose
Current conservation status
2018 | Data Deficient
Brief description
Similar to Pannaria minutiphylla except in the following characters:
Soredia common, 6–12 mm diam., developed from the exposed medulla along margins or from cracks or eroded parts of the upper surface, almost approaching isidiomorphs, but cortex mostly incompletely developed. Apothecia scattered, laminal, substipitate, 7–25 mm diam.; disc rufous-brown, flat; thalline margin crenate-striate, with soredia. Proper ascospores hyaline, non-septate, ellipsoidal, sometimes weakly asymmetrical, 65–100 μm 13–18 mm; perispores ellipsoidal, sometimes asymmetrical, 65–100 μm 135– 200 mm, verruculose when immature, verrucae few and poorly developed when mature, with apical, pulvinate extensions present in most spores.
Distribution
North Island: northern and southern regions. South Island: widespread. Also occurs on Stewart Island, the Auckland Islands, and Campbell Island.
In Australia it is common in Victoria and Tasmania. Also occurs in Argentina and Chile.
Habitat
Common on tree trunks, and occasionally found on rocks. Phorophytes include the following species and genera: Aextoxicum punctatum*, Acacia*, Atherosperma moschatum*, Berberis*, Chiliotrichum*, Coprosma, Dracophyllum, Empetrum*, Encalyptus*, Eucryphia*, Drimys winteri*, Fuchsia excorticata and F. magellanica*, Halocarpus bidwillii, Hebe, Kunzea, Leptospermum, Lomatia*, Metrosideros, Myrsine, Fuscospora (eight species noted), Olearia, Ovidia pillo-pillo*, Pandorea*, Persea lingua*, Pilgerodendron uviferum*, Pittosporum, Podocarpus, Pomaderris, Prostanthera*, Saxegothaea conspicua*, Sophora, Trochocarpa*, Ugni molinae* and Weinmannia.
Also collected on leaves of Laureliopsis* and Knightia excelsa (with Pannaria phyllidiella), and in Tasmania it was locally common on fences. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 1370 m.
Detailed description
Chemistry: TLC: vicanicin (major), and 3 to 4 unidentified terpenoids (trace), 4- O’-methylvicanicin in some samples. HPLC: vicanicin (major),
Similar taxa
Separated from Pannaria minutiphylla by the presence of soredia (and see Brief description above).
Substrate
Corticolous. Occasionally foliicolous and on rocks.
Attribution
Fact sheet prepared by Marley Ford (17 May 2021). Information in the Brief description, Distribution, Habitat, Features and Similar taxa sections copied from Elvebakk (2013).
References and further reading
Elvebakk A. 2013: Pannaria minutiphylla and P. pulverulacea, two new and common, austral species, previously interpreted as Pannaria microphyllizans (Nyl.) PM Jørg. The Lichenologist 45(1): 9-20.