TYPE. UNITED STATES. New Jersey, Bergen County, Closter, on dead wood (oak rails), Nov 1864, C.F. Austin s.n. (ASU, MSC, isotypes; CANL, M, syntypes; NY, isosyntypes; BM, FH, L, types).
Description. Life form: non-lichenized, allied fungus.
Thallus absent. Ascomata stalked apothecia, 1.5-2.0 mm tall, stout, black; capitulum lenticular to obovate, 0.15-0.25 mm diam.; disk black, convex; stalk slender, dark brown; capitulum underside and upper stalk shiny whitish. Asci cylindrical, 8-spored, uniseriate; ascospores brown, simple, oblong-ellipsoid, 9-16 x 4-7 µm.
Chemistry. Hymenial gel I+ bluish.
Substrate and Habitat. On bark or wood.
Distribution. North America: eastern and Pacific Northwest; in North Carolina found in the Blue Ridge ecoregion.
Literature
Fink, B. (1935) The Lichen Flora of the United States. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 426 pp.
Selva, S.B. (2010) New and interesting calicioid lichens and fungi from eastern North America. The Bryologist 113(2): 272-276.
Tuckerman, E. (1872) Genera Lichenum: An arrangement of the North America lichens. 281 pp.