Description: Lichen. Thallus crustose, squamules orbicular, up to 15 mm diam., plane to slightly undulate, with margins generally downcurved, but sometimes upcurved, entire or lacerate, attached to substrate by central holdfast. Upper side minutely areolate-scabrous, olivaceous to brown, with thin necral layer over photobiont layer of uneven thickness. Medulla of loose hyphae. Under side smooth, matt or glossy, pale carneous brown, cortex of paraplectenchymatous cells, sometimes with palisade appearance, c. 20-40 µm deep. Delimited soralia absent but soredia sometimes produced here and there from margins. Apothecia many per squamule, mainly immersed, appearing as black points at surface. Spores subglobose to ellipsoid, 5-6 x 3-4 µm, occasionally with pseudoseptum (Swinscow & Krog 1988: 205).

Photobiont: Data lacking.

Chemistry: No lichen substances.

Ecology: Data lacking.

Distribution type: Kenya, Eritrea, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, South Africa.

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