Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series B 28 (1): 3 - 5 (2002)..
Basionym: xxx.
Synonym: Index Fungorum
Type: China, Canton, Gaudichaud s.n. [holotype in PC (not seen); isotype H-NYL-36852!].
Thallus: Corticolous, up to 1.5 cm high, shrubby, sparingly and irregularly branches, growing from a narrow holdfast. Laciniae greenish yellow, fistulose, with small sparse perforations on the lower side, 0.3 1 (- 1.2) mm wide; main branches flattened in basal parts, more or less inflated in distal branches ending in attenuate tips, with short cylindrical side branches. Soredia absent. Pseudocyphellae absent. Laciniae 150 300 µm thick; cortex indistinct; chondroid tissue thin, continuous, smooth; medullary hyphae continuous on the upper cortex, very thin and discontinuous on the lower cortex especially around the perforations. Apothecia laminal or submarginal, up to 1.2 mm in diam.; margin entire; disc flat to convex, without white margin; thalline exciple complete; hymenium 40 45 µm high; subhymenium 8 10 µm thick, proper exciple 20 30 µm thick; ascospores shortly-fusiform, 10 12 x 3 3.5 4 µm. Pycnidia not seen.
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Chemistry: (Race 1) usnic, divaricatic and 4'-0-demethyldivaricatic acid. (Race 2) usnic, sekikaic and 4'-0-demethylsekikaic acid.
Ecology: It grows on twigs or barks of trees near the coast.
Molecular data: Genbank
Distribution: Database
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