Following D.J. Galloway unpublished checklist for Flora of New Zealand Lichens 2nd edition.
Identification
Determined name:
[Menegazzia]
Determiner:
G. Kantvilas
Identification date:
2010-11-23 (Verbatim: 23.11.2010)
Preferred name:
Menegazzia A.Massal.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Note:
Definitely not M. pertransita.
Specimen has 2-spored asci, whereas pertransita has 8.
I have not done tlc but specimen appears to have stictic acid, whereas pertransita does not.
Identification
Determined name:
Parmelia amabilis var. glaucothalla Zahlb.
Determiner:
[Rawson TW]
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Menegazzia pertransita (Stirt.) R.Sant.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Type status:
Isotype
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Greymouth
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-42.455 171.209
Verbatim locality:
Greymouth
Verbatim collector:
W. Mackay
Standardised collector:
William McKay
Verbatim date:
Land District:
Westland Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
on Nothofagus
Specimen notes
Type:
Type of Parmelia amabilis var. glaucothalla Zahlbr., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien math.-naturwiss.Kl. 104: 360 (1941).
Supplementary remarks:
W. 46
Supplementary remarks:
TLC 53/12
Stictic, constictic, unstictic, a + b + c + d. atranorin
P. W. James, 10.8.1973
Supplementary remarks:
Definitely not M. pertransita.
Specimen has 2-spored asci, whereas pertransita has 8.
I have not done tlc but specimen appears to have stictic acid, whereas pertransita does not.
G. Kantvilas, 23.11.2010