Global occurrence: Americas – North America (incl Mexico). Substrate: soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves. Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts). Thallus: squamulose (squamulous); granular, granulose, granulate; [th] upper surface: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | yellow(ish) brown; [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: present; [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: absent; [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: absent; [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: absent; [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (median) 1.0. Ascomata: absent | present; ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial; ascoma [mm]: (median) 2.0; [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon); [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present. Asci: lecanoralean; [asc] tholus: thickened; [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present; [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc). Ascospores: (median) 8.0; [asp] shape: ovoid, ovate; [asp] length [µm]: (low) 19.0 (high) 24.0; [asp] width [µm]: (low) 7.0 (high) 12.0; [asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular; [asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless; [asp] perispore, epispore: ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked. Conidiomata: absent | present. Conidia: cylindrical; [co] length [µm]: (low) 2.0 (high) 4.0. Secondary metabolites: present; secondary metabolites: pannaric acid | porphyrilic acid | porphyrilic acid methyl ester. Primary photobiont: present, chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid. Secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent | present.