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Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories
     
Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References
     
     
Pseudocyphellaria billardierei (Delise) Räsänen
     
  Ann. Bot. Soc. Zool.-Bot. Fenn. "Vanamo" 2(1): 39 (1932). Sticta billardierei Delise, Mém. Soc. Linn. Calvados 2: 99, pl. 8, fig. 35 ('1822') [1825]; Sticta faveolata var. billardierei (Delise) C.Bab., in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Nov. Zel. 2: 278 (1855); Sticta cellulifera var. billardierei (Delise) Hue, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., sér. 3, 2: 306 (1890); Lobaria billardierei (Delise) Hellb., Bih. Kongl. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. 21(3/13): 41 (1896). T: Cap Van Diemen, [Tas.], J.-J.H. de Labillardière ex Herb Dufour; lecto: PC-LENORMAND, fide D.J.Galloway & P.W.James, Lichenologist 12: 293 (1980); isolecto: FI-WEBB, PC-MONTAGNE. ***** Sticta flotowiana Laurer, Linnaea 2: 40 (1827); Pseudocyphellaria flotowiana (Laurer) Malme, Bih. Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 25(3/6): 22 (1899). T: Nova Hollandia [Australia], s. loc., F.Sieber; lecto: BM, fide D.J.Galloway & P.W.James, Lichenologist 12: 298 (1980); isolecto: M. ***** Sticta linearis Hook.f. & Taylor, London J. Bot. 3: 647 (1844). T: Lord Auckland's Group [Auckland Is.], J.D.Hooker; lecto: BM, fide D.J.Galloway, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 17: 75 (1988).  
     
  Thallus irregularly spreading, somewhat entangled, loosely attached centrally, 5–15 (–30) cm wide; margins free, ±ascending. Lobes linear-elongate, dichotomously branching, often widely divergent at apices, 2–6 (–10) cm long, 2–15 (–30) mm wide, plane to canaliculate; lobe margins entire, thickened-ridged below (×10 lens), without projecting pseudocyphellae. Upper surface grey-green to olive-brownish when dry, lettuce-green when wet, shallowly to deeply faveolate; without isidia, maculae, phyllidia, pseudocyphellae or soredia. Medulla white. Photobiont green. Lower surface wrinkled to bullate, pale and glabrous at margins, darker centrally, with a scattered to uniform tomentum. Pseudocyphellae minute, white, Apothecia marginal, rarely laminal, sessile, 0.5–5 mm diam.; disc dark red-brown to black, epruinose; exciple corrugate-scabrid, pale buff to red-brown. Ascospores ellipsoidal,
1-septate, 25–32 (–38) × 9–11.5 μm, brown or grey; walls thickened. CHEMISTRY: Methyl evernate, tenuiorin, 2"-O-methyltenuiorin, 2',2"-di-O-methyltenuiorin, methyl gyrophorate, methyl lecanorate, gyrophoric acid (trace), norstictic acid, stictic acid, cryptostictic acid (trace), 9α-acetylconstictic acid (trace), constictic acid and zeorin.
     
  Occurs in S.A., eastern N.S.W., Vic. and Tas.; grows on living and dead wood, tree trunks, canopy branches and shrubs in sheltered forest, occasionally also on rocks in ±open forest, at altitudes of 200–1540 m. Widespread in New Zealand from latitude 35°S southwards to the Auckland Is. and Campbell Is.  
     
   
     
     
  Galloway et al. (2001)  

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