Mycotaxon 67: 300 (1998).

Synonyms: Index Fungorum

Type: India, South India, Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu, Chittery, 21 January 1983, Sethy (AMH 83.47 - holotype).

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Thallus: crustose, spreading, covering an area of up to 10 cm diameter, contiguous, smooth, pale olivaceous, < 0.1 mm thick, slightly shiny, without calcium oxalate crystals, IKI-. Ascigerous zones delimited, linear, branched and anastomosing, not raised, white, pruinose, conspicuously red-brown dotted when abraded, without calcium oxalate crystals but with tiny crystals above the asci causing the upper surface to be dark dotted, without algal cells. Asci in surface view red-brown, in lines, ovoid, with 8 ascospores, IKI-. Ascospores 7 - 10 - 11-septate, ellipsoid, 35-38 /10 - 12 µm, cells equal, walls and septa > µm thick (Aptroot 2009: 620).

Photobiont: Green alga.

Chemistry: Psoromic acid, conpsoromic acid (TLC). Thallus and ascigerous zones C-, PD+ yellow, KOH-, UV- (Aptroot 2009: 620).

Ecology: on bark.

Molecular data: Genbank

Distribution: Database

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