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Australasian Lichenology Number 46, January 2000 Australasian Lichenology Menegazzia dielsii (Hillmann) R. Sant. Number 46, January 2000 =w= -= -.- Menegazzia.. pertransita. (Stirton) R. Sant. Smm (hydrated) 5 mm ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS 14th meeting of Australasian lichenologists, Melbourne, 2000 ......................... 2 5th International Flora Malesiana Symposiwn, Sydney, 2001 ......................... 2 Australian lichen checklist now on the Web ....................................................... 2 New book-Australian rainforest lichens ................................ .. ......................... 3 New calendar-Australasian cryptogams ........................................................... 3 RECENT LITERATURE ON AUSTRALASIAN LICHENS .................................. 4 ARTICLES Archer, AW-Platygrapha albovestita C. Knight, an additional synonym for Cyclographina platyleuca (Nyl.) D.D. Awasthi & M. Joshi ............................. 6 Galloway, DJ-Contributions to a history of New Zealand lichenology 3. The French ...................................... .......................................................................... 7 Elix, JA- A new species of Karoowia from Australia ...................................... 18 McCarthy, PM-Porina austropaci/ica (Trichotheliaceae), a new species from Norfolk Island .................................................................................................. 21 Elix, JA; Griffin, FK; Louwhoff, SHJJ-Norbaeomycesic acid, a new depside from the lichen Hypotrachyna oriental is ........................................................ 25 ADDITIONAL LICHEN RECORDS FROM AUSTRALIA -v-,l" Schultz, M; Biidel, B; Elix, JA (42)-Paulia caespitosa, new to Australia and the Southern Hemisphere .. ............................................................................. 29 McCarthy, PM; Kantvilas, G (43)-Verrucaria fusconigrescens and V. promin ula in Tasmania, with notes on the habitats and biogeographical affinities of Tasmania Verrucariaceae ........................................................................... 31 Smm Smm ADDITIONAL LICHEN RECORDS FROM NEW ZEALAND Fryday, AM (31) ....................... ............................................................................... 36 ISSN 1328-4401 (formerly the Australasian Lic11enological Newsletter) ADDITIONAL LICHEN RECORDS FROM OCEANIA McCarthy, PM; Elix, JA (4)-Some pyrenolichens in Fiji ................................ 40 Official publication of th~ Australasian Lichen Society BOOK REVIEW Galloway, DJ-Nordic Lichen Flora, Volume 1 .............................................. .. 43 Editorial Board: WM. Makolm, ].A. Elix, G. Kantvilas, and P.M. McCarthy ANNOUNCEMENTS New bQok~Australian . raillfOl'eat lichens 14thioeetiDgofAustralasian Uchenoloileta-MelbolU'Do, 2000 Lichens in Rainforest in Tasmania and south-eastern Australia by G. Kantvilas & S.J. J arman with photographs by BA Fuhrer DATE CHANGED TO APRIL 29-30 Published by Australian Biological Resources Study The 14th meeting of Australasian lichenologists will be held in the Baracchi Flora ofAustralia Supplementary Series, Volume 9 Room, Observatory Building, Royal Botanic Gardens, Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra, on April 29-30 (Saturday-Sunday), 2000. The date has been changed to More than 200 m acrolichens have been recorded in Tasmania's rainforest, and avoid any conflict with Easter. 127 are illustrated in this volume. Many also occur inthe cool temperate rainforests On Saturday, Alan Archer, Jennifer Bannister, John Elix, Sharon Ford, Gintaras of south-eastern Australia or New Zealand. Kantvilas, Simone Louwhoff, and Kathleen Ralston will give talks. A meeting will The book. bea utifully illustrated in colour, provides introductory chapters on follow, then dinner with good food, wine, and conversation. On Sunday, we'll visit t he nature of lichens, the composition of the lichen fl ora in Tasmania, and the two lichen habitats near Melbourne. distribution and ecology of lichens in rainforest. It includes notes on the genera Ifyou wish to register and/or present a paper, or if you require further inform and species, an identific ation key, and a glossary of technical terms. ation, contact Kath Ralston by: Soft cover, 212 pages, approximately 240 colour photographs. post: Kathleen Ralston, National Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Birdwood cost: A$39.95 plus A$4 postage (surface mail). A brochure/or de r ~for m is bundled Avenue, South Yarra, Victor ia 3141, Australia. with this issue of Australasian Lichenology. Ifyou wish to receive further infor p hone: +61-(0)3-9252-2381 mation by fax or e-mail, contact Pat McCarthy: fax: +61-(0)3-9252-2350 post: e-mail: [email protected] ABRS GPO Box 787 Canberra, A. C.T. 2601, Australia A1utteliaJi'llchell cl1ecldiat on the Web e-mail: [email protected] The checklist of Australian lichens (updated to November 1999) can now be view ed at the Australian Biological Resources Study website: AustralasiaJl cryptogama....2000 .,a)endsr http://www_anbg.gov.auJabrsllichenliatlintroduction.html The checklist includes publication details of 2820 accepted species and infra To raise funds for the.FungalForay, Heino Lepp and Judith Curnow have printed specific taxa in 363 genera, as well as several thousand synonyms and misapplied an impressive and attractively priced 2000 calendar illustrating in full colour a names. In addition, basic information is provided on distribution in the eight wide variety of Australasian cryptogarns-Iichens, fungi, mosses, liverworts, and Australian States and Territories plus Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island (SW hornworts. The plates illustrate the lichens Cladonia floerkeana, Peltigera sp., Pacific Ocean) and Macquarie Island (Subantarctic). lJsnea scahrida, and Bhizocarpon spp . and other saxicoles, the fungi Amanita sp., Anthracophyllum archer~ Chlorociboria aeruginascens, Dictyophora multicolor, Pat McCarthy, ABRS Entoloma sp., Fistulina hepatica, Galerina sp., Hypholoma aurantiaca, Leotia ' 7V lubrica, Mycella epipterygia, Mycena interrupta, Omphalotus nidiformis, Plectania 5th illtematiollal'Flora Males." Sytnpoiium-SydDey JOOI campylospora, Polyporus arcularius, Schizophyl/um commune, Tremel/a fuciformis, and Vibrissea dura, themo8ses Bryum argm teum, Campylopus introflexus, Fissi den.s sp., Fu.n.aria hygrometrica, Leptostomltm inc!inans" Pleuroplzascum grandi The 5th international Flora Malesiana Symposium will be held in September globum, Polytriehllmjunip erinum, and Ptychomnion aciculare, the liverworts 2001 in Sydney, with associated workshops in Cairns. The first circular for the £epid~zia obtusi/oha, Plagiochilagigantea, Riccia bi/urea, and Bieda crinita, and symposium is bundled with this issue of Australasian LichetlO/ogy. Address any the hornwort Anthoceros laevis. H you'd like to purchase a copy and/or see elec further enquiries to Dr Barry Conn: tronic samples of some of its pages, e-mail [email protected] post: Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney Mrs Macquaries Road Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia e-mail: [email protected] AUSTRALASIAN LICHENOLOGY 48, January 2000 o AUSTRALASIAN LICHENOLOGY 46, January 2000 o RECENT LITERATURE ON AUSTRALASIAN LICHENS Galloway, DJ (2000): (BOOK REVIEW) Nordic Lichen Flora, Volume 1, Introduc tion, Calicioid lichens andfungi, Ahti, T; Carlin, G; Jm-gensen, PM; Moberg, R; Sechting, U; Thor, G; Tibell, L (eds),1999. Australasian Liehenology48, 43-46. Aptroot, A (1999): Thelenella terricola, a new saprobic ascomycete from upland Garnock·Jones, PJ; Breitwieser, I (1998): New Zealand floras and systematic Papua New guinea. FungalDiversity 2, 43-46. botany: progress and prospects. Australian Systematic Botany 11, 175-184. Archer, AW (1988): The lichen genus Cladonia section Cocciferae in Australia. Jergensen, PM; Wedin, M (1999): On Psoroma species from the southern hemisphere Proceedings ofthe Linnean Society ofNew South Wales 110, 205-213. with cephalodia producing vegetative dispersal units. Lichenologist31, 341-347. Archer, AW (2000): Platygrapha albovestita C. Knight, an additional synonym for Kantvilas, G; McCarthy, PM (1999): Steinia australis, a new species in the lichen Cyclographinaplatyleuca(Nyl.) D.D. Awasthi &M. Joshi. Australasian Lichen family Aphanopsidaceae. Lichenologist 31, 555-558. 010gy46,6. Leys, JF; Eldridge, DJ (1998): Influence of cryptogamic crust disturbance to wind Coppins, BJ; Kondratyuk, SY (1998): Opegrapha trassii sp. nov., a new lichenicolous erosion on sand and loam rangeland soils. Earth Surface Processes andLandforms fungus on Heterodermia. Folia Cryptogamica Estonica 32, 9-14. 23, 963-974. Eldridge, DJ (1997): Cryptogams in the Western Riverina. Department of Land Lucking, R; Vezda, A (1998): Taxonomic studies in foliicolous species of the genus and Water Conservation, Sydney. Parina (lichenized Ascomycotina: Trichotheliaceae) II. The Porina epiphylla Eldridge, DJ (1998): Caretakers of the desert. Nature Australia Spring, 48-55. group. Willdenowia'J8,181-225. Eldridge, DJ (1998): Lichens and mosses and liverworts. Natural Resource Mayrhofer, H (1998): (BOOK REVIEW) A Revision of the Lichen Genus Relicina, Management September, 19-24. by JA Elix, Bibliotheea Lichenologica 82, 150 pp., J. Cramer, Berlin & Stutt Eldridge, DJ (1998): Trampling of microphytic crusts on calcareous soils, and its gart, 1996. Herzogia 13, 241. impact on erosion under rain-impacted flow. Catena 33, 221-239. McCarthy, PM (1999): Porinaotagensis(Trichotheliaceae), a new semi aquatic lich Eldridge, DJ; Koen, TB (1998):