Locality:
United States, Nevada, Washoe County, Reno, Hunter Creek Trail
39.465 -119.925 +-250m.
Elevation:
2100 meters (6888ft)
Habitat:
open _Pinus_ forest high on east slope
Substrate:
decorticate pine log
Notes:
thallus grayish, verruculose, fairly well-developed; apothecia ~0.3-0.9mm, dark red-brown to black, rim mostly thin and entire but somewhat variable and almost excluded in oldest; hymenium ~50-55um; amphithecial cortex to ~40um below, distinct, weakly brown-granular; spores ~8-10x3.5um