New Zealand Fungi and Lichens

DSC_4648 'Black Saddle' lichen (Peltigera nana) showing fruiting bodies (apothecia) and the typically 'grey-black' foliose lobes containing bundles of cyanobacteria, which enable this lichen to photosynthesise even when completely saturated, and thus allowing it to grow in extremely wet sites on the forest floor. Waikaia Bush *