Bryologist 102, 4: 613 - 616 (1999).
Protologue type data: Data lacking.
Type: TYPE: U.S.A. Florida. Baker Co., Osceola National Forest, at highway rest station on south side of Route 10. On trees in cultivated space on west side of rest station, 16 June 1992, LaGreca 505 (holotype, DUKE).
Type locality: Data lacking. Not mentioned in checklist
Type locality coordinates: Data lacking.
ITS barcode: Data lacking.
Description: Thallus fruticose, pale yellow-green, usually growing singly, irregularly branched, 1.5 - 4.0 cm wide; lobes linear, flat, surfaces wrinkled, sometimes striate, 0.5 - 4.0 mm wide, with pseudocyphellae sparsely or moderately developed, round or elliptic, usually marginal; cortex irregular, 20 - 170 µm thick, medulla 40 - 190 µm thick. Apothecia numerous, usually terminal,the disk pruinose, 1 - 5 mm in diameter; spores elliptic, straight, 1-septate, 4 - 7 x 10 - 16 µm. Conidia numerous, colorless, immersed in the tips of lobes, round, 60 - 130 µm in diameter; spermatiophores irregularly branched; spermatia clubshaped, < 1.5 x 2 - 5 µm.
Photobiont: Data lacking.
Chemistry: Medullary compounds variable but always present, usnic acid including 1) 4-0-methylhypoprotocetraric, 2) norbarbatic, 3) lecanoric, 4) divaricatic, or 5) stenosporic acids.
Ecology: Usually corticolous.
Distribution type: Data lacking.
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