Locality:
United States, Nevada, Pershing County, Humboldt Range, Black Canyon, ~350 m east up ridge from top of faint mining track at head of canyon
40.5477 -118.1908 +-5m.
Elevation:
2496 meters (8187ft)
Habitat:
broad east-west ridge with thin low _Artemisia_ scrub; limestone scree and occasional talus blocks with local vein of some sort of yellowish crumbly sandstone-like rock
Substrate:
rotten iron-rich sandstone
Notes:
thallus well-developed yellow, areoles clearly crenulate, apothecia with thick margin, parathecium obscured above by escaped algae(?!) not forming anything like a stipe, hymenium ~70um, spores 8 per ascus narrowly bent-oblong ~16-18x4.5-5.5um