The large green balloons are the female plants. The smaller red male plant is at about 5 O'clock in the landscape picture. Growing on sand in chaparral.
In podocarp bush but a beech tree nearby
On mossy rocks. Photobiont green. Thallus attached by holdfast. Thallus >4 cm long. Margins lacerate-incised.
On mossy rocks.
White medulla. Green photobiont. Upper surface glabrous. Not sorediate. Phyllidiate lobe margins.
Locally common. Corticolous on toro (Myrsine salicina).
Thallus sparsely pseudocyphellate. Spores densely muriform, brown, uniseriate 75 × 25 μm 8 / ascus
Fits this species except for the sparsely pseudocyphellate thallus (should be prominently so).
Identified by A.J. Marshall.
Noted for Wharariki - Puponga Bioblitz November 2019.
Voucher: P.J. de Lange 14806 & T.J.P. de Lange, UNITEC 12170.
on rocks above the tree line, Old Ghost Road track, near Mt Montgomery
Dirinaria sp. ?
On numerous boulders along the Leith Stream.
this is the bad weed species around rotorua. this one is tiny and in a place where it hasnt arrived as a dumped bit, it may possibly have floated down the river? or it is a proper seedling???!!!!!