TYPE. UNITED STATES. NEW YORK, Adirondacks, Mt. Colden near Lake Placid, 1952, J.L. Lowe s.n. (CANL 63412, holotype; CANL, LSU, UPS, WIS, isotypes).
Description. Lichenized, tripartite fungus.
Thallus fruticose. Pseudopodetia pedunculate-erect, extremely rigid and woody, for the most part or at least towards the base brownish, forming dense tufts. Phyllocladia especially crowded at the tips of the pseudopodium, digitate-coralloid.
Substrate and Habitat. On rocks of talus slopes.
Distribution. Eastern North America; in North Carolina in the Blue Ridge ecoregion.
Literature
Carlin, G. (1998) Stereocaulon tennesseense new to Sweden. Graphis Scripta9(2): 33-34.
Lamb, I.M. (1977) A conspectus of the lichen genus Stereocaulon (Schreb.) Hoffm. Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory43: 191-355.