Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) thallus: fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like thallus: continuous, diffuse, effuse [th] upper surface: green(ish) black | yellow(ish) grey | grey(ish) green [th upper surface]: epruinose [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: present [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: absent [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: absent | present [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: absent | present [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (low) 0.2 (high) 0.6 [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): distantly discontiguous [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: smooth, plane | verrucose, warted [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): isotomic-dichotomous ascomata: absent secondary metabolites: present secondary metabolites: salazinic acid | usnic acid primary photobiont: present secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.

substrate: bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs.