Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bungartz, F., (eds.) 2002. Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 1.
Life habit: not lichenized, lichenicolous Thallus: absent Apothecia: up to 1 mm diam., remaining ± plane and marginate or plane and marginate when young, later convex and immarginate, epruinose; exciple: greenish brown in rim, usually paler in inner part; hypothecium: pale brown to colorless; epithecium: bright to dark green (K-, N+ violet) asci: clavate, 8-spored ascospores: ellipsoid, 1-septate, 10-14.5 x 4-5.5 µm Pycnidia: not seen Secondary metabolites: none detected. Host: Lecania Substrate and ecology: on crustose lichens over soil and rock in open habitats, up to 1280 m World and Sonoran distribution: locally rather common in California (extending north of the Sonoran area) and Baja California.