Substrate and habitat. Corticolous in tropical and subtropical forests.
Distribution. Pantropical; in North Carolina found in the Coastal Plain ecoregion.
Literature
Montagne, J.P.F.C. (1856) Sylloge generum specierumque cryptogamarum. 498 pp. (original description as Calicium javanicum)
Shi H., Qian Z., Harada H., Aptroot A. & Wang L.-S. (2015) Pyrgillus cambodiensis and P. javanicus (Pyrenulaceae: lichenized Ascomycota) new to China. Lichenology13(2): 59-62.
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