Mycologia 97(1): 157 (2005).

Basionym: Parmelia reparata Stirt., Scott. Natural. 4: 201 (1878) [1877-78].

Type: Australia, Queensland, Cave Mountain near Brisbane, F. M. Bailey s.n. (BM - lectotype). Designated by xxx.

Thallus: foliose, loosely adnate, mineral gray, coriaceous, 10 - 20 cm broad; lobes irregularly divided, rotund at the apices, broadly crenate and ciliate at the margins; cilia abundant and dense, 1.5 - 2.5 mm long; upper surface glossy, effigurate-maculate, more or less cracked with age; soredia and isidia lacking; lower surface black exept for very narrow blackish brown apical zone, minutely wrinkled, short-rhizinate or papillate even near the apices, short rhizines less than 0.1 mm long, long rhizines formed more or less in groups, thick, about 1 mm long. Thallus 160 - 220 µm thick, upper cortex 21 - 26 µm thick, gonidial layer subdiscontiuous, 8-20 µm thick, medulla 100 - 140 µm thick, lower cortex browinish, ca. 13 µm thick. Apothecia common, stipitate, 10 - 20 mm in diameter, amphithecium rugose, effigurate-maculate, disk brown to dark brown, perforate; hymenium 75-85 µm high, asci ca. 26 / 70 µm in size. Spores 6 - 8 / 15 - 18 µm (Kurokawa 2001: 2).

Photobiont: Trebouxia.

Chemistry: Atranorin, salazinic acid and consalazinic acid (Kurokawa 2001: 2).