Mycotaxon 30: 319 (1987).

Protolog: South Africa, Cape Province, Franschhoek Pass on highway R45, 650 m, 26. October 1986, M. E. Hale 78184, Grid 3318 CC (US, holotype; LD, PRE isotypes).

Type locality: South Africa, Cape Province, Franschhoek Pass on highway R45, 650 m, 26.10.1986, M. E. Hale 78184, Grid 3318 CC (US - holotype; LD, PRE - isotypes).

Barcode: Data lacking.

Coordinates: 33°54'58.5"S 19°09'30.1"E.

Thallus: loosely adnate, somewhat pulvinate, brittle, easily breaking apart, 4-6 cm broad, darkish yellow-green; lobes sublinear, 0,6-1.2 mm wide, elongate but somewhat constricted, separate to imbricate; upper surface faintly to partly distinctly white-maculate, shiny, isidia and soredia lacking; medulla white; lower surface plane to barely convoluted, pale brown to brown, shiny, moderately rhizinate, rhizines brown or blackening, simple to furcate, 0.2-0.6 mm long. Apothecia unknown. Pycnidia common; conidia cylindrical, 0.5 x 5-6 µm. (Hale 1990: 62).

Alga: Trebouxia.

Chemistry: Salazinic acid, + consalazinic acid, usnic acid, + chalybaeizans unknown in traces (Hale 1990: 62).

Ecology: On rocks and pebles on some higher elevations.

Molecular data: Genbank

Distribution: South Africa, Cape Province.

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