Sauteria 15: 25 (2008).
Protolog: Ramalina saxicola, thallo laciniis dense ramosis, pseudocyphellatis, acidis salazinicis et saepe protocetraricis continens.
Protolog type data: Azores, Sao Miguel, Ponta da Ferraia, 1 m alt., 4 June 2003, F. Schumm 11114 (B-holotype; ABL, Hb Schumm-isotypes).
Type locality: Portugal, Azores, Sao Miguel, Ponta da Ferraia, 1 m, 4 June 2003, F. Schumm 11114 (B - holotype; ABL, Schumm - isotypes).
Type locality coordinates: 37°49'6"N, 25°39'57"W; 37.818333, -25.665833.
Molecular barcode: Data lacking.
Thallus: fruticose, dull, shrubby, consisting of dense groups of branches rooting in a common base, up to 6 cm long, upright to hanging, greenish to yellowish grey, somewhat fragile, rather variable in branching pattern, but usually with many dense branches that become terete, and often very thin and somewhat curled towards the tips, with wrinkled surface, cartilaginous strands numerous, partly reaching the surface and forming dots or small lines of pseudocyphellae, branches mostly flattened, partly irregularly rounded, up to ca. 2 mm diameter, base usually much thinner, ca. 1 mm in diameter; soredia absent. Apothecia laminal, rare, not well developed, ascospores unknown. Pycnidia laminal, pale, surrounded by thallus warts (Aptroot & Schumm 2008: 25).
Photobiont: Data lacking.
Chemistry: Medulla C-, K+ red, P+ red, P-, UV-, salazinic acid, + protocetraric acid; cortex with usnic acid (Aptroot & Schumm 2008: 25).
Ecology: Known only from coastal rock and on lava of walls along coastal fields on the Azores islands of Pico, Graciosa and Sao Miguel, where it is locally abundant (Aptroot & Schumm 2008: 25).
Distribution Type: Endemic on the Azores (Pico, Graciosa, Sao Miguel).
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