in Kalb, Buaruang, Mongkolsuk & Boonpragob, Phytotaxa 42: 42 (2012).
Protolog: Sicut Malmidea polycampia (Tuck.) Kalb & Lücking sed ascosporis maioribus, soraliis deficientibus differt.
Protolog type data: Type: Mascarene Islands. Reunion: Forêt de Bébour, a few km NW of Plaine-des-Palmistes, sentier botanique, in a pristine tropical mountain rainforest, 1300 m, 21°08'S, 55°35'30"E, 31 August 1991, K. & A. Kalb (holotype hb. Kalb 25202).
Type locality: France, Reunion, Forêt de Bébour, a few km NW of Plaine-des-Palmistes, sentier botanique, in a pristine tropical mountain rainforest, 1300 m, 31 August 1991, K. & A. Kalb (Kalb 25202 - holotype).
Type locality coordinates: 21°08'S, 55°35'30"E.
Chemistry: "At least 6 unknown lichen substances present, among them one major yellow pigment with relative Rf-values 50, 34, 35 in solvents A, B' and C (Elix & Ernst-Russell 1993)" (Kalb et al. 2012: 42).
Ecology: Data lacking.
Distribution type: Endemic on Reunion, one of the Mascarene Islands.
Taxonomy: Data lacking.
Note: No atranorin detected (Kalb et al. 2012: 42).