Symb. Bot. Ups. 34, 1: 413 (2004).

Protolog type data: Type: Canary Islands, Tenerife, Buenavista del Norte, on the N-slope of Montaña de Talavera near La Cuesta, 28°21.435'N, 16°50.625'W, 300 - 350 m, 1 Jan. 2001, Tehler 8306 (S holotype; B, BM, E, ESS, H, LD, NY, TFMC, UPS, US, isotypes)".

Type locality: Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife, Buenavista del Norte, on the N-slope of Montaña de Talavera near La Cuesta, 300 m, 1 January 2001, A. Tehler 8306 (S - holotype; B, BM, E, ESS, H, LD, NY, TFMC, UPS, US - isotypes).

Type locality coordinates: 28°21.435'N, 16°50.625'W.

Molecular barcode: AJ634014.

Thallus: fruticose, branches terete or slightly flattened, surface smooth or slightly foveate, pruina present but thin; colour creamy-white; cortex hyphae slightly interlaced, anticlinally arranged but not forming a conspicuous palisade plectenchyma, smooth, hyaline in lower cortex and brown in upper cortex, epicortex gel absent; medulla byssoid, colour in branches white or sometimes brownish in various parts, holdfast prominent, hypomedulla colour in holdfast white but streaked with black or dark brown, soralia present, maculiform or punctiform, isidia absent. Apothecia unknown. Pycnidia unknown (Timdal 2004: 460).

Photobiont: Trentepohlia (Timdal 2004: 405).

Chemistry: Lecanoric acid. Soralia C+ red, K-. Thallus surface C+ red, K-. Medulla c-, K- (Tehler et al. 2004: 413).

Ecology: On silicious rock.

Distribution type: Data lacking.

Taxonomy: Data lacking.

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Distribution Database: Distributions

Distribution Database: Discover Life

Picture Database: Tropical Lichens

Molecular Database: Genbank

Synonym Database: Index Fungorum

Synonym Database: Mycobank