Kermadec Islands Nature Reserve, Northern Kermadec Islands Group, Raoul Island, Upper Sunshine Valley Track
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-29.2836 -177.932
Verbatim locality:
Kermadec Islands Nature Reserve, Northern Kermadec Islands Group, Raoul Island, Upper Sunshine Valley Track
Verbatim collector:
P J de Lange K682
Standardised collector:
Peter J. de Lange
Verbatim date:
16 May 2011
Start date:
2011-05-16
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
North Auckland Land District
Ecological Region:
Kermadec
Ecological District:
Kermadec
Native lands:
Te Aupōuri
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
29°17´0.9“ S 177°55´54“ W (WGS84 -29.283583 -177.931667)
Altitudes:
from 317m
Habitat:
On the trunk of nikau (Rhopalostylis baueri) in a deeply shaded Kermadec pohutukawa (Metrosideros kermadecensis) / nikau forest at start of track descent into Sunshine valley.
Notes:
Very uncommon. Thallus loosely attached randomly over parts of thallus base; adaxially dard reddish-grey-brown when fresh, somewhat folded and in some specimens distinctly cochleate; chartaceous when dry; margins covered in fine erose-greyish soralia, soralia also present as scattered, pustulate welts on the adaxial lamina; abaxial surface covered in dark fawn to brown, woolly tomentum; cyphellae sparse, some distinctly sorediate.