in Aptroot, Sparrius, LaGreca & Bungartz, Bryologist 111, 3: 512 (2008).
Protologue type data: Type: Bermuda. Warwick Parish: Stonehole Bay National Park, off South Road, on shaded, dry underhangs of limestone cliffs along the coast, 32°15'18"N, 64°48'48"W, 17 m alt., 16 Aug 2006, LaGreca 1543 (BM, holotype).
Type locality: United Kingdom, Bermuda, Warwick Parish, Stonehole Bay National Park, off South Road, on shaded, dry underhangs of limestone cliffs along the coast, 17 m, 16.8.2006, S. LaGreca 1543 (BM - holotype).
Type locality coordinates: 32°15'18"N, 64°48'48"W.
ITS barcode: Data lacking.
Description: Thallus crustose, to 4 cm in diam., continuous, scurfy-crustose, chalk-white; cortex absent; medulla white, cretaceous, with crystals; prothallus indistinct. Ascomata ellipsoid to elongate ... .
Photobiont: Trentepohlia spec.
Chemistry: Thallus C+ red (at least around apothecia or apothecium margins), KOH-, PD-, UV+ violet. Erythrin plus traces of two unidentified compounds were found with TLC. These unidentified compounds were visible in solvent A only. No gyrophoric or lecanoric acid was detected (Aptroot et al. 2008: 512).
Ecology: Data lacking.
Distribution type: United Kingdom: Bermuda. Endemic.
Taxonomy: Data lacking.
Note:
Distribution Database: Distributions
Distribution Database: Discover Life
Picture Database: Tropical Lichens
Molecular Database: Genbank
Synonym Database: Index Fungorum
Synonym Database: Mycobank