Lichenologist 42, 5: 550 (2010).

Protolog: Similis A. albescens sed acida deficiens differt.
Protolog type data: India, Karnataka State, Peercode to Hiriadka, c. 200 ft. alt., 27 January 1980, P. G. Patwardhan, 80.145 (AMH-holotypus).

Type locality: India, Karnataka State, Peercode to Hiriadka, c. 200 ft. alt., 27.1.1980, P. G. Patwardhan, 80.145 (AMH - holotypus).

Type locality coordinates: 13°21'0"N, 74°52'0"E; 13.35, 74.866667.

Molecular barcode: Data lacking.

Thallus: snowy white, granulose, farinose, finely cracked, delimited by a thin hypothallus. Ascomata immersed, completely hidden in the thallus, visible only when moistened, irregular, concolorous with the thallus, whitish powdery with moderately thick thalline margin, 0.5-1.5 mm long, 0.2-0.3 mm broad. Disc not visible, covered with dense white pruina, reddish brown to blackish red when wet. Exciple not carbonized, not striate. Hymenium hyaline, 125-145 µm tall, not inspersed, I-, KI-. Hypothecium distinct, light yellow, 10-12.5 µm thick. Paraphyses branched at the tips. Periphysoids short, indistinctly warty at the tips. Asci 4-8-spored. Ascospores hyaline, 8-10-trans-septate, elongate, tapering at the ends, 35-43 x 7-10 µm, I-, KI- (Sharna et al. 2010: 550).

Photobiont: Data lacking.

Chemistry: No lichen substances (Sharna et al. 2010: 551).

Ecology: A lowland species in evergreen forest [in India] (Sharna et al. 2010: 550).

Distribution type: Data lacking.

Taxonomy: Data lacking.

Note:

Mycobank: MB#548355.

Distribution Database: Distributions

Distribution Database: Discover Life

Picture Database: Tropical Lichens

Molecular Database: Genbank

Synonym Database: Index Fungorum

Synonym Database: Mycobank

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