TYPE. UNITED STATES. “Granitic rocks, North Carolina (Curtis), Tuckerman l.c. 1872. Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Willey.” (Tuckerman 1882).
Description.Life form: lichenized fungus.
Thallus areolate, coralloid-granulose, dark reddish brown. Photobiont cyanobacterium with reddish gelatinous sheath. Ascomata apothecoid pyrenoascocarps (developing from pycnidia), scattered, globose, concolorous with thallus, 0.3-0.5 mm diam.; disk punctiform, sunken, becoming dilated and lecanorine. Paraphyses becoming distinct. Ascospores ovoid to ellipsoid, hyaline, simple, 14-25 x 8-12 μm.
Chemistry. Not reported.
Substrate and Habitat. Saxicolous on siliceous rock.
Distribution. North America; in North Carolina locality not specified.
Literature
Schultz, M. (2007) Pyrenopsis. Pp. 286-287in T. H. Nash, III, C. Gries and F. Bungartz: Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Volume 3. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Tuckerman, E. (1872) Genera Lichenum: An arrangement of the North America lichens. 281 pp (original description as Synalissa phaeococca).
Tuckerman, E. (1882) A synopsis of the North American lichens. Part. I. Comprising the Parmeliacei, Cladoniei and Coenogoniei. S.F. Cassino, Boston, 262 pp.