TYPE. Not reported.

Description. Life form: lichenized fungus.

Thallus crustose, endophloeodal, smooth and continuous, mineral gray; vegetative diaspores absent. Photobiont Trentepohlia in scattered clumps, not abundant. Ascomata perithecoid, multilocular, “compound perithecia” with a common carbonized ascomatal roof with multiple ostioles; compound perithecia scattered, irregular, black. Hymenium hyaline, K/I-; paraphysoids not distinct, short-celled, highly branched and anastomosed. Asci pyriform, 8-spored; ascospores hyaline to brown, muriform, 30-38(-43) × 12-17(-18) µm, with 8-9 rows of locelli, transversely constricted at 1-2 septa.

Chemistry. Not reported.

Substrate and Habitat. Corticolous hardwood trees.

Distribution. Pantropical to eastern North America; in North Carolina found in Piedmont and Blue Ridge ecoregions.

Literature

Harris, R.C. (1995) More Florida Lichens. Including the 10¢ Tour of the Pyrenolichens. Published by the Author, Bronx, N.Y. 192 pp.

Massalongo, A.D.B. (1856). Miscellanea lichenologica: Manipolo di Licheni nuovi o poco conosciuti. Estratto dal Volume pubblicato in occas. delle Nozze Bizio-Pazienti. Giuseppe Civelli (original description as Bottaria composita).

Schumm, F. & A. Aptroot. (2021) Atlas of Pyrenulaceae and Trypetheliaceae Vol 3: Lichenized Ascomycota. Books on Demand (ebook publisher), 524 pp.